PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shuman, Jill
ED  - Wissner, Erik
TI  - Innovations in Managing Atrial Fibrillation and Patients With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
DP  - 2015 Sep 07
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 21--22
VI  - 15
IP  - 22
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/15/22/21.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/15/22/21.full
AB  - Atrial fibrillation is a common arrhythmia that presents management challenges to clinicians. Pulmonary vein isolation may help patients with paroxysmal and persistent AF convert to prolonged sinus rhythm. However, patients in need for additional substrate modification will likely require radiofrequency ablation as the preferred ablation technology. For patients with low left ventricular ejection fraction, cardiac resynchronization therapy may be achieved by simultaneously pacing both the left and right ventricles; endocardial pacing is likely superior to epicardial pacing.