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Rather than merely band-aiding the consequences of atrial fibrillation such as stroke with rhythm-suppressing drugs and blood thinners, it is possible to destroy the root cause of this abnormal cardiac rhythm with cryotherapy.  University of British Columbia cardiologists report in the New England Journal the successful non-invasive catheter cryoablation of the fibrillation trigger point and the prevention of progressively more severe atrial arrhythmias.  Those receiving cryotherapy vs. antiarrhythmic drug therapy were 75% less likely to  develop persistent atrial fibrillation.

 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2212540

 

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