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 …

Very high‐power short‐duration catheter ablation for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias: Insights from the FAST and FURIOUS study series

CH Heeger, KH Kuck, RR Tilz - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The QDOT MICRO™ Catheter is a novel open‐irrigated contact force‐sensing
radiofrequency ablation catheter. It offers very high‐power short‐duration (vHPSD) ablation …

Impact of left atrial posterior wall ablation during pulsed-field ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation

MK Turagam, P Neuzil, B Schmidt, T Reichlin… - Clinical …, 2024 - jacc.org
Background Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) alone is insufficient to treat many patients with
persistent atrial fibrillation (PersAF). Adjunctive left atrial posterior wall (LAPW) ablation with …

Major in-hospital complications after catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias: individual case analysis of 43 031 procedures

L Eckardt, F Doldi, O Anwar, N Gessler… - Europace, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims In-hospital complications of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF), atrial flutter
(AFL), and ventricular tachycardia (VT) may be overestimated by analyses of administrative …

Longer and better lives for patients with atrial fibrillation: the 9th AFNET/EHRA consensus conference

D Linz, JG Andrade, E Arbelo, G Boriani… - Europace, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims Recent trial data demonstrate beneficial effects of active rhythm management in
patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and support the concept that a low arrhythmia burden is …

Pulsed‐field ablation does not induce esophageal and periesophageal injury—A new esophageal safety paradigm in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

D Grosse Meininghaus, R Freund… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Esophageal injury is one of the most serious complications of pulmonary vein
isolation (PVI) with thermic energy sources. Better tissue selectivity of primarily non‐thermic …

Acute procedural efficacy and safety of a novel expandable diameter cryoballoon in atrial fibrillation ablation: Early results from a multicenter ablation registry

Y Isonaga, S Miyazaki, J Nitta, Y Shirai… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The major limitation of the current cryoballoon (CB) system is a fixed 28 mm
balloon‐size. We sought to analyze real‐world early experience with novel‐sized adjustable …

DNA Framework‐Enabled Three Dimensional Organization of Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation

H Chen, F Li, Y Ge, J Liu, X Xing, M Li, Z Ge… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pre‐organizing molecular drug within a microenvironment is crucial for the development of
efficient and controllable therapeutic systems. Here, we report the use of tetrahedral DNA …

Pulsed field ablation technology for pulmonary vein and left atrial posterior wall isolation in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

M Schiavone, F Solimene, M Moltrasio… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Limited data exist on pulsed‐field ablation (PFA) in patients with persistent atrial
fibrillation (PeAF) undergoing left atrial posterior wall isolation (LAPWI). Methods The …

Pulsed field ablation with the pentaspline catheter compared with cryoablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in the UK NHS: a cost-comparison …

C Duxbury, D Begley, PM Heck - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is a promising new ablation modality for the treatment
of atrial fibrillation (AF) that has recently become available in the UK National Health Service …