Can persistent atrial fibrillation be treated with cryoballoon surgery

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A few days ago, my grandmother had persistent atrial fibrillation, which is very worrying. Persistent atrial fibrillation is that if the patients have no signs of improvement for more than two days in a row, they need to be treated with drugs. Now let's popularize science. Can we do cryoball surgery for persistent atrial fibrillation.

Can persistent atrial fibrillation be treated with cryoballoon surgery

First: atrial fibrillation is the most common persistent arrhythmia, which can reduce the quality of life of patients, increase the hospitalization rate and mortality rate, moderate heart failure and stroke, poor drug treatment effect and may bring serious side effects, and bring heavy medical economic burden to the society. According to conservative estimates, there are at least 8 million patients with atrial fibrillation in China.

Second: since the application of cryoballoon in clinic, more than 80000 patients with atrial fibrillation have been treated in Europe and America. From the current clinical data, the traditional cold saline perfusion radiofrequency ablation operation takes a long time, and needs to infuse a large amount of physiological saline during the operation, which causes hidden danger to the cardiopulmonary function of older patients, and the burning sensation and pain in the process of radiofrequency ablation will bring pain to patients.

Third, the operation time and X-ray exposure time of cryoballoon were significantly shortened, and there was no need to infuse a large amount of saline during the operation. The patients had no common pain during traditional operation, and the incidence of serious complications such as cardiac perforation and pericardial tamponade was significantly reduced, so it had the advantages of more safety, convenience, effectiveness and good tolerance.

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For patients with atrial fibrillation, cryoballoon surgery has been recommended by many academic experts as one of the better operations for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, which can not only reduce the pain of patients, but also relatively safe.