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Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2004) 1, 12-13
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0019  
Received 28 July 2004 | Accepted 12 August 2004

Is pulmonary vein antrum isolation safe and effective in valvular heart disease and open heart surgery?

Hugh Calkins

Correspondence The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Carnegie 592, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA

Email
 hcalkins@jhmi.edu

This article has no abstract so we have provided the first paragraph of the full text.

The approach used for catheter ablation of AF has evolved considerably since Jais et al.1 identified the PV as an important trigger of AF. Focal ablation targeting arrhythmogenic triggers within the PVs has been replaced by more anatomically based approaches.2, 3, 4

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