RESULTS
Of the 40 consecutive patients, who underwent PVI with RFCA for
paroxysmal or persistent AF in our institution between October 2020 and
July 2021, we excluded cases with withdrawal of informed consent (n=3),
inability to keep the patient at rest due to prolonged procedure time
(n=1), unsuccessful PVI (n=1), no intrinsic atrial beat from sinus node
after PVI (n=2), or no SVC sleeve (n=5).