Visually-Guided Balloon Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation | Zendy

Vivek Y. Reddy | Zendy; Petr Neužil | Zendy; Sakis Themistoclakis | Zendy; Stephan B. Danik | Zendy; Aldo Bonso | Zendy; Antonio Rossillo | Zendy; Antonio Raviele | Zendy; Robert A. Schweikert | Zendy; Sabine Ernst | Zendy; Karl-Heinz Kuck | Zendy; Andrea Natale | Zendy

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Visually-Guided Balloon Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Author(s) -

Vivek Y. Reddy,

Petr Neužil,

Sakis Themistoclakis,

Stephan B. Danik,

Aldo Bonso,

Antonio Rossillo,

Antonio Raviele,

Robert A. Schweikert,

Sabine Ernst,

Karl-Heinz Kuck,

Andrea Natale

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.108.840587

Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , ostium , ablation , pulmonary vein , cardiology , catheter ablation , balloon , balloon catheter , tamponade , catheter , ablation of atrial fibrillation , percutaneous , surgery

Electric isolation of the pulmonary veins (PVs) can successfully treat patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. However, it remains technically challenging to identify the left atrial-PV junction and sequentially position the ablation catheter in a point-by-point contiguous fashion to isolate the PVs. In this study, a novel endoscopic ablation system was used to directly visualize and ablate tissue at the left atrial-PV junction with laser energy.

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