The researchers caution that a more randomized and controlled clinical trial is needed before doctors can reliably use their cardiac imaging analysis routinely with patients, but if confirmed, they say the method should
reduce ablation procedures unlikely to work, along with the procedures» substantial costs and complication risks.
Not exact matches
«Based on our study findings, physicians and patients need to be educated that atrial flutter can be readily cured through catheter
ablation, and the
procedure may
reduce the risk for atrial fibrillation.»
This will
reduce the chances of complications occurring during routine but skilled
procedures such as
ablation procedures in the heart.
Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute initially set out to discover if catheter
ablation reduces the long - term risk of atrial fibrillation and whether the patients» age at the time of the
procedure affected their risk.