Background—Pulmonary vein isolation is an established treatment option for atrial
fibrillation. To date, the incidence and quality of ablation-induced esophageal thermal …

Background Phrenic nerve palsy (PNP) is the most frequently observed complication during
cryoballoon ablation (CB; Arctic Front, Medtronic, MN) occurring in roughly 7%–9% of the …

Background Compared with the first-generation Arctic Front cryoballoon (ARC-CB), the new
Arctic Front Advance cryoballoon (ARC-Adv-CB) increases the efficient CB-tissue contact …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common symptomatic and sustained cardiac arrhythmia. It
affects approximately 2–3 million people in the USA alone with an increased incidence and …

Background The second-generation cryoballoon (CB-A)(Arctic Front Advance, Cryocath,
Medtronic, MN, USA) might significantly improve procedural outcome with respect to the first …

Background Phrenic nerve injury (PNI) is the most frequently observed complication during
pulmonary vein (PV) isolation using the second-generation cryoballoon. Objective The …

Background Cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has emerged as an alternative to
radiofrequency PVI for atrial fibrillation (AF). Data are lacking to define the rates and …

Cardiac electrophysiology utilizes nonimplantable, catheter-based devices for diagnosis
and treatment of arrhythmias as well as electroanatomical mapping of cardiac chambers …

Objective We tested the hypothesis that pulmonary vein (PV) measurements on pre-
procedural CT/MR imaging can predict difficulty in isolation and phrenic nerve (PN) injury …

Aims The present study sought to analyse the relationship between the temperature drop
during the cryoenergy application and the occurrence of phrenic nerve injury (PNI) in a large …