Cryo would work...if they could find the right spot...so far no luck even with Zio monitors and episode have not had long duration.
Have excellent cardio team capable of cryo.
unless there’s structural heart issues like a bad valve, artificial valve or heart damage, almost all afib is a triggered by the pulmonary veins right before they enter the left atrium ... ablation attempts to isolate the veins from the heart tissue in the left atrium by killing the heart tissue that surrounds each of the four pulmonary vein openings, with subsequent scaring of the dead tissue being non-conductive ... to work, the tissue has to be killed the full depth of the atrial wall and the full circle of tissue killed, otherwise unwanted electrical activity of the pulmonary veins will find it’s way though ... radio-wave ablation is not very successful in creating complete isolation, which tries to burn a series of connected points around the openings while the heart beats against the burner tip ... in fact, i’ve personally known several people who’ve undergone the radio-wave procedure and it didn’t work for any of them ... some went back as many as three times
cryo, on the other hand freezes the full circle of tissue with a super-cooled balloon that sticks to each pulmonary opening like a tongue stuck to a frozen flag pole, and will freeze the tissue all at once ...