Evaluating Pulmonary Vein Isolation [PDF]
Journal of Arrhythmia, 2008 Pulmonary vein isolation is the electrophysiological endpoint of complete conduction block at the level of the veno-atrial junction and must be explicitly distinguished from encircling PV ablation which frequently does not result in isolation.
Dipen Shah, MD
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A rare case of right heart failure with the necessity for veno‐arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation following pulmonary vein stenosis after radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation [PDF]
Pulmonary Circulation, 2023 Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) after radiofrequency energy‐mediated percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation as a treatment option for atrial fibrillation is a serious complication and the prevalence in historical reports varies between 0% and 42%.
Sabrina Kopp +13 more
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Isolation of atrial fibrillation to a pulmonary vein [PDF]
Europace, 2003 This is a 37-year-old woman with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) for 1.5 years. She has had symptomatic recurrences (palpitations and syncope) despite flecainide ± beta blockers and sotalol. An electrophysiological study elsewhere found AF initiated by atrial tachyarrhythmias originating …
M E Josephson
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Catheter entrapment in a pulmonary vein: a unique complication of pulmonary vein isolation. [PDF]
Chest, 2010 Ablation strategies for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) are associated with several potential complications. During electro-anatomic mapping of the left atrium (LA) before ablation, the ablation catheter was entrapped in the right inferior ...
Fromer, M. +3 more
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Complications of Cryoballoon Pulmonary Vein Isolation
Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review, 2019 Since the cryoballoon (CB) was introduced into clinical practice, more than 400,000 patients have undergone a pulmonary vein (PV) isolation with a CB throughout the world. Although the efficacy of the first-generation CB was limited, the recently introduced secondgeneration CB has achieved a greater uniformity in cooling, which has facilitated a ...
Shinsuke Miyazaki, Hiroshi Tada
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Concurrent assessment of time-to-isolation and temperature at 30 s as an innovative metric for predicting the persistence of pulmonary vein isolation using second-generation cryoballoons [PDF]
Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryBackground We attempted to establish correlations between intraoperative variables such as time-to-isolation (TTI) and temperature (T) at the 30-second mark, and the sustained efficacy of pulmonary vein isolation.
Mei-Qiong Wu +7 more
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Methods and techniques for increasing the safety and efficacy of pulmonary vein isolation in patients with atrial fibrillation [PDF]
Folia Medica, 2023 The most common type of sustained arrhythmia is atrial fibrillation (AF). Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is the cornerstone of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, which has emerged as the primary therapeutic strategy for atrial fibrillation ...
Krasimir R. Dzhinsov
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 AimTo propose a standardized workflow for 3D-electroanatomical mapping guided pulmonary vein isolation in pigs.Materials and methodsDanish female landrace pigs were anaesthetized.
Julie Norup Hertel +18 more
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Esophageal thermal injury in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation [PDF]
, 2021 Pulmonary vein isolation is an established method for the catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. Esophageal thermal injuries, such as esophageal erosion, ulceration and periesophageal nerve injury leading to gastric hypomotility, are important ...
Kaneshiro, Takashi +3 more
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Two-year outcomes of pulmonary vein isolation and cava-tricuspid isthmus radiofrequency ablation vs pharmacological only antiarrhythmic therapy: a single center experience [PDF]
, 2022 The benefit of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in rhythm control in atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter patients is uncertain, but risk of death, arrhythmia recurrence and other post ablation complications remains high.
Brynza, Mariia, Lisova, Natalia
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