Study Population:
All consecutive patients who underwent AF ablation at Stony Brook University Hospital between January 2013 and July 2021 were included. During the study period, 1568 AF ablations in 1412 patients were performed; 535 (33%) were female. Data for AF recurrence, procedure complications, and emergency department visits/in-patient hospitalizations was collected by chart review. The Stony Brook Medicine Institutional Review Board reviewed and approved this study. The patient consent requirement was waived because of the retrospective observational chart review study design. We included CA using either radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation.