90% I year success rate Ablation

[dmac4646]

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Encouraging

[jennydog]

It is encouraging. Interesting that it's RF and not cryoablation.

Thank you for the posting.

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Interesting, thank you for posting.

[CDreamer]

Thanks for posting - I had ablation which was successful for about 2.5 years so I would come under the 90% success rate for 12 months.

I would be interested in a study looking at success rate for 5+ years.

[dmac4646 in reply to CDreamer]

Yes indeed the technology they are now using to map has not been around that long , but very few were claiming 90pc after a year (apart from possibly Dr Shilling) hence the reason I think that this may well be process given the new technology - but as always time will tell. Its good to see a large amount of funding going into the sector and more should follow if this proves to be a significant improvement.

[Andyt36 in reply to CDreamer]

Agree not sure what the mean number of years us for reoccurrence, but would be good to see a longer study. As they key seems to be the 5 year mark.

[Mike11]

I think success is mostly down to the skill level of the EP. Mine was claiming this rate many years ago but I chose him because he was one of the best around, but I suspect his underlings pull the percentage down.

[Londontown8]

I had ablation don for a small Timor on my liver and it has come back after four month I’m set to have another one Christine