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BARCELONA – Current guidelines recommend more extensive ablation procedures beyond pulmonary vein isolation for persistent atrial fibrillation. At the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Dr. Atul Verma explains in this video interview that the fresh results of STAR-AF 2, the largest-ever randomized trial of popular ablation strategies in persistent AF, turn the conventional wisdom on its head and suggest that less ablation may be more.

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BARCELONA – Current guidelines recommend more extensive ablation procedures beyond pulmonary vein isolation for persistent atrial fibrillation. At the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Dr. Atul Verma explains in this video interview that the fresh results of STAR-AF 2, the largest-ever randomized trial of popular ablation strategies in persistent AF, turn the conventional wisdom on its head and suggest that less ablation may be more.

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BARCELONA – Current guidelines recommend more extensive ablation procedures beyond pulmonary vein isolation for persistent atrial fibrillation. At the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Dr. Atul Verma explains in this video interview that the fresh results of STAR-AF 2, the largest-ever randomized trial of popular ablation strategies in persistent AF, turn the conventional wisdom on its head and suggest that less ablation may be more.

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