The prospective randomized single-centre study Mesh Ablator versus Cryoballoon Pulmonary Vein Ablation of Symptomatic Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (MACPAF; clinicaltrials.gov NCT01061931) compared ...
Europace, CLINICAL RESEARCH, Lydia Koch, Karl Georg Haeusler, Juliane Herm, Erdal Safak, Robert Fischer, U. Malzahn, Thomas Werncke, Peter U. Heuschmann, Matthias Endres, Jochen B. Fiebach, ...
Abstract Aims The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between pulmonary vein (PV) electrical activation during atrial fibrillation (AF) and after cardioversion into sinus ...
Europace, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, Xiao Sheng Hu, Stuart P. Thomas
Abstract Aims The selection of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) that will benefit most by left atrial ablation remains suboptimal. Larger left atrial volume (P: 0.039), diabetes (P: 0.001), ...
Europace, Ablation for atrial fibrillation, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Michael Efremidis, Georgios Giannopoulos, Spyridon Deftereos, Louiza Lioni, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Konstantinos Vlachos, ...
Recurrence of AF is defined as any documented AF episode >30 s. Acute procedural results show that 692 veins were acutely isolated with a mean procedure and fluoroscopy time of 226 and 20.4 min, ...
Europace, CLINICAL RESEARCH, Lucie Šedivá, Jan Petrů, Jan Škoda, Marek Janotka, Milan Chovanec, Vivek Reddy, Petr Neužil
Abstract Aims Intravenous adenosine triphosphate (ATP) administration could reveal dormant conduction (DC) gaps on the ablation line of a pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). The DC sites at each of the ...
Europace, CLINICAL RESEARCH, Kazuaki Kaitani, Toshiya Kurotobi, Atsushi Kobori, Katsunori Okajima, Takenori Yao, Yuko Nakazawa, Yoshihisa Nakagawa
Two months before the ablation procedure, the patient underwent a 16-slice spiral computed tomography (CT), which showed a typical pattern of dextrocardia as depicted in Figure 1A. [...]the CT ...
Europace, Case Report, Maurizio Del Greco, Massimiliano Marini, Maurizio Centonze, Marcello Disertori
A multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that LVZ areas [odds ratio (OR): 1.12 per 1 cm2, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.041.23, P = 0.001] and ATP-induced reconnection (OR: 2.08, 95% ...
Europace, Ablation for atrial fibrillation, Takanori Yamaguchi, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Yasutsugu Nagamoto, Koji Miyamoto, Kenta Murotani, Kaoru Okishige, Naohiko Takahashi
Abstract Aims Electrical reconnection after pulmonary vein (PV) isolation is associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence. Reconnection may already develop within a 30 min waiting period and ...
Europace, Ablation for atrial fibrillation, Marieke G. Compier, Marta De Riva, Katia Dyrda, Katja Zeppenfeld, Martin J. Schalij, Serge A. Trines
Abstract Aims To assess the acute effects, safety, and clinical outcome of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation using a cryoballoon catheter. Conclusions Cryoballoon PV isolation is a feasible ...
Europace, CLINICAL RESEARCH, Helena Malmborg, Stefan Lönnerholm, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist
Abstract Aims To compare the acute and the 6 month outcome of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) using irrigated tip magnetic catheter and remote magnetic cathter navigation (RMN) with ...
Europace, Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation, Arash Arya, Ruzbeh Zaker-Shahrak, Phillip Sommer, Andreas Bollmann, Ulrike Wetzel, Thomas Gaspar, Sergio Richter, Daniela Husser, Christopher Piorkowski, ...