Fortune tellers' glass ball – clinical scores for prediction of single procedure success rates in pulmonary vein isolations

Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for the treatment of symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) belongs to the most frequently performed procedures in invasive electrophysiology. Despite advances in catheter- and mapping techniques, a considerable number of patients still experiences recurrences of AF after catheter ablation. Could we anticipate the failure by assessing clinical parameters before taking the procedural risk? Comparison of the predictive...