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Contact Force‐Guided Deep Engagement with a Steerable Sheath in the Distal Great Cardiac Vein: A Case Report
Author(s) -
KUMAGAI YU,
ARIMOTO TAKANORI,
IWAYAMA TADATERU,
HASHIMOTO NAOAKI,
WATANABE TETSU,
KUBOTA ISAO
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/pace.12826
Subject(s) - medicine , great cardiac vein , ablation , catheter ablation , ventricular tachycardia , catheter , cardiology , contact force , cardiac ablation , surgery , coronary sinus , physics , quantum mechanics
Ablation of ventricular tachycardia originating from the great cardiac vein involves the difficult step of deep engagement with an ablation catheter. The catheter and a steerable sheath (MobiCath, Biosense Webster, Diamond Bar, CA, USA) were advanced alternately only when the contact force vector was parallel to the coronary venous system. Deep engagement with a steerable sheath ensured a powerful backup force during ablation.