It has been nearly 30 years since Haïssaguerre and colleagues discovered that atrial fibrillation was a triggered arrhythmia initiated by repetitive discharges originating from the pulmonary veins.

Treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias varies according to rhythm, rate ... such as mitral valve repair. Pulmonary vein isolation/ablation of focal triggers of paroxysmal AF has a higher ...