# Have you had a catheter ablation?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-a-catheter-ablation/927176 "2020-12-04T05:36:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-had-a-catheter-ablation/927176/21 "2020-12-08T16:32:52Z")

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This answers something I had been wondering about: how long they’ve been doing this procedure. The technology is pretty amazing, and seems to be very effective and routine. You have provided a good indication of when it moved from still somewhat experimental to more proven and reliable.

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