Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

Overview

Mayo Clinic is an international leader in catheter ablation to treat heart arrhythmias. Most Mayo patients who undergo catheter ablation are cured of their heart arrhythmia and no longer require medication.

Catheter ablation is a minimally invasive procedure that does not require open heart surgery, but rather uses catheters (long, narrow tubes) to reach the heart and destroy (ablate) abnormal heart tissue.

Catheter ablation may be used to treat:

• atrial fibrillation
• atrial flutter
• supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) including AV nodal re-entry and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and certain types of ventricular tachycardia.

Since 1998, Mayo has used catheter ablation to treat more than 800 patients with heart arrhythmias, with over a 90 percent success rate. And ongoing research at Mayo Clinic is focused on designing even better interventions for ablation of heart arrhythmias. Read more about success rates at Mayo Clinic.

Patients benefit from the expertise and experience of the catheter ablation team at Mayo Clinic, which is led by electrophysiologists (cardiologists with specialized training in the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders). Patients also benefit from Mayo Clinic's leading-edge technology and state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment facilities.

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