Atrial fibrillation, referred to as atrial fibrillation, is a common arrhythmia and belongs to cardiovascular disease. The overall incidence of atrial fibrillation in the general population is 0.4%, and it is 1% under 60 years old. With the increase of age, the incidence of atrial fibrillation is also increasing, reaching 10% over 75 years old. So, what is the best treatment for atrial fibrillation? What is the best treatment for atrial fibrillation?

1. Drug therapy and anticoagulant for arrhythmia. Drug therapy can only control symptoms and prevent complications, but can't treat atrial fibrillation. Generally, long-term medication is needed.

2. DC cardioversion: two electrodes are placed at the relevant parts of the patient's chest, and electric shock defibrillators are used to generate current to eliminate atrial fibrillation and restore sinus rhythm. The patient needs hospitalization, and the treatment of chronic atrial fibrillation with direct current cardioversion alone cannot be cured. With the increase of medical history, with the increase of patient's medical history, atrial enlargement and age, the curative effect decreased obviously.

3. Establish a permanent pacemaker First, implant a permanent pacemaker to completely control atrial fibrillation. This method can not completely eliminate atrial fibrillation, and patients still have the risk of stroke; At the same time, this method is expensive, the life of pacemaker is limited, and it needs to be replaced regularly.

4. Catheter ablation in the Department of Cardiology We use a special catheter to insert into the heart through the venous channel, and then send the catheter to the corresponding part of the atrium under X-ray monitoring to eliminate these abnormal electrical activities through thermal energy damage such as radio frequency, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating atrial fibrillation. Endocarditis catheter operation is complicated and the operation time is long. First, we should check the position where abnormal electrophysiological signals appear, and then deal with them. This method has a good effect on paroxysmal heart disease, but for patients with atrial fibrillation complicated with organic heart disease, catheter ablation can not deal with heart problems, and the treatment effect for patients with chronic atrial fibrillation is not good, and the overall success rate is only 20-50%. Moreover, the irradiation time of X-ray is long, generally about 20 minutes to several hours, which will cause great harm to patients, including doctors themselves, and the treatment cost is also very expensive.

5. Cardiac surgery ablation defibrillation Any cardiac surgery, such as heart valve replacement, bypass, congenital heart disease, etc. Under direct vision, the surgeon uses energy such as radio frequency and microwave to ablate along the surface of atrial intima and adventitia along a specific path to prevent all abnormal electrophysiological signal transmission, while maintaining the original normal electrophysiological signal transmission of the heart, so as to restore the original rhythmic beating of the heart, the original rhythmic structure and the original normal electrophysiological signal transmission. The treatment methods of atrial fibrillation introduced above, according to the different conditions and types of atrial fibrillation of each patient, doctors will choose different treatment schemes for them.