Peter Calvert, Wern Yew Ding, Moloy Das, Lilith Tovmassian, Muzahir H Tayebjee, Guy Haywood, Claire A Martin, Kim Rajappan, Matthew G D Bates, Ian Peter Temple, Tobias Reichlin, Zhong Chen, Richard N Balasubramaniam, Christian Sticherling, Christina Ronayne, Nichola Clarkson, Maureen Morgan, Janet Barton, Ian Kemp, Saagar Mahida, Dhiraj Gupta
BACKGROUND: CRAFT was an international, multicentre, randomised controlled trial across 11 sites in the United UK and Switzerland. Given the evidence that pulmonary vein triggers may be responsible for atrial flutter (AFL) as well as atrial fibrillation (AF), we hypothesised that cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) would provide greater symptomatic arrhythmia reduction than cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) ablation, whilst also reducing the subsequent burden of AF. Twelve-month outcomes were previously reported...
March 13, 2024: Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology: An International Journal of Arrhythmias and Pacing