{"id":10524,"date":"2026-09-12T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=10524"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:36:06","slug":"pvi-sham-af-esc-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/pvi-sham-af-esc-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"PVI-SHAM-AF | ESC 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>PVI-SHAM-AF | ESC 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>* 262 symptomatic AF patients: catheter ablation vs a simulated ablation procedure (same sedation and catheter-lab setting, but without performing the ablation).<\/span><br \/>\n<span>* At 6 months, QoL improved in both groups, with no significant advantage of ablation \u2192 primary endpoint negative.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>* However, ablation clearly reduced AF recurrence (27% vs 48%) and AF burden (11.6% vs 23.6%).<\/span><br \/>\n<span>* Key message: Ablation reduced AF, but this did not translate into significantly greater QoL improvement than sham at 6 months.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>* Not a reason to abandon AF ablation; rather, it challenges how much of its symptomatic benefit is specifically attributable to the procedure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source: PVI-SHAM-AF | ESC Congress 2026, Munich \u2014 30 Aug 2026.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/esc365.escardio.org\/presentation\/335431\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/esc365.escardio.org\/presentation\/335431&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1789284118536000&amp;usg=AOvVaw354H2jWXcW8_0G6SAwgsXQ\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/esc365.escardio.org\/<wbr \/>presentation\/335431<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PVI-SHAM-AF | ESC 2026 * 262 symptomatic AF patients: catheter ablation vs a simulated ablation procedure (same sedation and catheter-lab setting, but without performing the ablation). * At 6 months, QoL improved in both groups, with no significant advantage of ablation \u2192 primary endpoint negative. * However, ablation clearly reduced AF recurrence (27% vs 48%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}