Latest Results of AF treatment

Our results the year up to June 2009

In 2009 we performed 443 AF ablations at St Barts and London Bridge.

• Major complications
• Blood leaking out of heart requiring drainage (tamponade) 1.8%
• Stroke 0.67%
• Bleed from leg requiring transfusion 0.2%
• Death 0%

We have had one patient die four days after the procedure this year from an unrelated heart attack as a result of blockage of an artery that had been treated with angioplasty eight years before.

Please click here for latest results illustrating patients having their first ablation at Barts

Note: We have not included data from our experimental techniques (burn and freeze – for paroxysmal AF and Hansen guided ablation) because until we have robust randomised controlled data we do not think it is fair to raise expectations which may be proved unfounded.