2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement …

S Tzeis, EP Gerstenfeld, J Kalman, EB Saad… - Europace, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based
safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007 …

Twenty-five years of research in cardiac imaging in electrophysiology procedures for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias

A Berruezo, D Penela, B Jáuregui, C de Asmundis… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Catheter ablation is nowadays considered the treatment of choice for numerous cardiac
arrhythmias in different clinical scenarios. Fluoroscopy has traditionally been the primary …

One‐year outcomes of pulmonary vein isolation with a novel cryoballoon: Primary results of the FROZEN AF trial

KA Ellenbogen, S Mittal, N Varma… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Cryoablation therapy for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) to treat paroxysmal atrial
fibrillation (PAF) is well established. A novel 28 mm cryoballoon system designed to operate …

Improved hospital discharge and cost savings with esophageal cooling during left atrial ablation

C Joseph, J Cooper, R Sikka, J Zagrodzky… - Journal of medical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Left atrial ablation to obtain pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for the treatment of
atrial fibrillation (AF) is a technologically intensive procedure utilizing innovative and …

Calculated parameters of luminal esophageal temperatures predict esophageal injury following conventional and high‐power short‐duration radiofrequency …

D Grosse Meininghaus, R Freund… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Luminal esophageal temperature (LET) monitoring is not associated with
reduced esophageal injury following pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). Objective Detailed …

Proactive esophageal cooling protects against thermal insults during high-power short-duration radiofrequency cardiac ablation

M Mercado Montoya, T Gomez Bustamante… - International journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Proactive cooling with a novel cooling device has been shown to reduce
endoscopically identified thermal injury during radiofrequency (RF) ablation for the treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Percutaneous Treatment Approaches in Atrial Fibrillation: Current Landscape and Future Perspectives

P Theofilis, E Oikonomou, AS Antonopoulos, G Siasos… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained arrhythmia in clinical practice, represents
a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with an increasing prevalence. Pharmacologic …

Incidence and clinical relevance of upper gastrointestinal pathology during preprocedural endoscopy in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation

D Grosse Meininghaus, R Freund… - Clinical Research in …, 2022 - Springer
Background Reflux-induced esophagitis might facilitate ablation-induced esophageal
lesions (ELs) following pulmonary vein isolation (PVI), and these may progress to atrio …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical utility of oesophageal temperature monitoring in AF ablation: an updated meta-analysis and review of literature

D Khanra, A Mukherjee, A Gupta, AM Rauf… - Indian Pacing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation can lead to oesophageal thermal injuries (ETI).
These are thought to be the precursor of the much rarer but frequently fatal atrio …

[PDF][PDF] Document-Reviewers: Daniel Steven (Reviewer Coordinator), Michael-Joseph Agbayani, T. Jared Bunch, Aman Chugh, Juan Carlos Díaz, James V. Freeman …

G Rodriguez-Diez, F Sacher, P Suwalski, SA Trines - Europace, 2024 - air.unimi.it
In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based
safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007 …