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ReviewReviews in cardiovascular medicine2025

Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Can We Individualise Therapy or Should One Size Fit All?

Nick B Spath, Ruairidh Martin, Moloy Das, Hanney Gonna, Prash Sanders, Kadhim Kadhim

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Review in Reviews in cardiovascular medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nick B SpathDepartment of Cardiology, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, EH16 4SA Edinburgh, UK.
Ruairidh MartinDepartment of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN Newcastle upon-Tyne, UK.
Moloy DasDepartment of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN Newcastle upon-Tyne, UK.
Hanney GonnaDepartment of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN Newcastle upon-Tyne, UK.
Prash SandersCentre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Kadhim KadhimDepartment of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN Newcastle upon-Tyne, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8928-0402

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern medicine increasingly offers the potential to individualise patient care and tailor therapies to meet specific patient needs. Catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation has undergone radical evolution since the advent of early ablative therapies; however, more comprehensive or extensive strategies are now possible. Moreover, novel energy sources, catheters, and mapping platforms are being developed and implemented, raising the potential to deliver ablation strategies more effectively, durably, quickly, and potentially more extensively. This poses the challenge of whether to prioritise anatomical landmark-based ablation or pursue individual mechanisms of arrhythmia on a personalised basis. Thus, this review aims to summarise the current state-of-the-art developments in catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, recent advances, and developments in both the ablation and understanding of arrhythmia pathophysiology.

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atrial fibrillationcatheter ablationpulsed field ablationspatiotemporal dispersionvein of Marshall ethanol ablation

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PMID41524069
PMCPMC12781012

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