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Adaptive servo ventilation cuts atrial fib burden

mdedge.com April 2, 2018

Adaptive servo ventilation produced a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in atrial fibrillation burden in patients with heart failure and sleep apnea in results from an exploratory, prospective, randomized study with 35 patients. Adaptive servo ventilation (ASV) may be an effective antiarrhythmic treatment producing a significant reduction in atrial fibrillation without clear evidence of being proarrhythmogenic.

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