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Use of the cryoballoon to ablate pulmonary vein‐dependent left atrial flutter
Author(s) -
Peigh Graham,
Wasserlauf Jeremiah,
Sattayaprasert Prasongchai,
Verma Nishant,
Knight Bradley P.
Publication year - 2019
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.13826
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary vein , ablation , atrial flutter , atrial fibrillation , catheter ablation , catheter , lesion , cardiology , surgery
New atrial flutter (AFL) that arises after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) by catheter or surgical ablation can originate from reconnection of a pulmonary vein (PV). Reisolation of PVs with cryoballoon ablation (CBA) for treatment of peri‐PV AFL after Maze or PVI has not previously been reported. The present case series describes use of CBA to treat post‐PVI and post‐Maze PV‐dependent AFL. In these cases, CBA was used to reisolate the PVs and terminate AFL without requiring additional lesion sets for treatment of AFL.