... declared. Atrial fibrillation ablation Pulmonary vein stenosis Computed tomography angiography Magnetic resonance angiography Balloon angioplasty Bare-metal stent © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. 2025 This is an Open Access...

... , Lemoine   M , Wenzel   JP   et al   A novel platform allowing for pulsed field and radiofrequency ablation: first commercial atrial fibrillation ablation procedures worldwide with and without general anesthesia . Heart Rhythm   2024 ; 21 : 497 – 8 . 10 Mulder   BA , Defaye   P...

... after the CryoMaze procedure was safe and associated with higher freedom from AF/AT and improved clinical outcomes. Graphical Abstract Graphical Abstract Atrial fibrillation Catheter ablation Concomitant atrial fibrillation ablation Hybrid ablation Maze procedure Ministry of Health of the Czech...

... and predictors . Heart Rhythm 2011 ; 8 : 1869 – 1874 . 3 Arbelo E , Brugada J , Hindricks G , Maggioni A , Tavazzi L , Vardas P , et al ESC-EURObservational Research programme: the atrial fibrillation ablation pilot study, conducted by the European Heart Rhythm...

... dislodgement, or thrombus formation on the device. Atrial fibrillation ablation in this subset of patients has often been protracted and scarcely reported. TEE and intra-cardiac echocardiography have been increasingly used for interventional procedure guidance during AF ablation. As described here, AF ablation...

... in patients treated with the PolarX system. No significative differences have been showed in term of 1-year freedom of AF recurrences between the two cryoballoon systems. Atrial fibrillation Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation Atrial fibrillation ablation Cryoablation Cryoballoon What’s new? PolarX...

... patients. LAAO – Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion CA – Percutaneous Catheter-directed Atrial Fibrillation Ablation MACE – Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events NRD – National Readmission Database Table 1 Demographics of the study Covariates Total (n = 1189) LAAO and CA...

.... Methods and results This study compared CFG (n = 100) with AIG (n = 100) in consecutive atrial fibrillation ablation procedures, in which both pulmonary vein isolation and VGA were performed. In the AIG group, AI targets were ≥500 anteriorly and ≥350–400 posteriorly. Upper endoscopy...

... and consistent tissue contact leads to consistent and evenly applied energy delivery resulting in a robust lesion. Figure 4 The index hybrid atrial fibrillation ablation visualized above in a schematic view (A) and right thoracoscopic view on right pulmonary vein isolation with bipolar radiofrequency...

... for the treatment of symptomatic persistent AF (CONVERGE Trial): rationale and design . Am Heart J 2020 ; 224 : 182 – 91 . 9 Winkle RA , Mead RH , Engel G , Patrawala RA. Long-term results of atrial fibrillation ablation: the importance of all initial ablation failures undergoing...

... , Klinkenberg TJ , Mariani MA , Van Gelder IC , Blaauw Y. Hybrid atrial fibrillation ablation in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation or failed catheter ablation . Neth Heart J 2019 ; 27 : 142 – 51 . 45 Maesen B , Weberndörfer V , Bidar E , Linz D...

... procedures and better clinical outcomes in repeated AF ablation procedures. Atrial fibrillation Delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance-guided atrial fibrillation ablation Atrial fibrosis Pulmonary vein reconnection What’s new? Delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (DE-CMR...

... recurrences after 1 year. Radiofrequency and procedural time were significantly shortened. Atrial fibrillation ablation High-power short-duration ablation Pulmonary vein isolation Radiofrequency ablation Complications observed during the study are shown in Table  4 . No pericardial tamponade...

.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract Despite the emerging technical evolution of the last two decades, the primary success rate of single-procedure pulmonary vein isolation (PVI), the cornerstone for any atrial fibrillation ablation procedure, is highly variable ranging from 53% to 92%. The recent development of ultra...

... administration of protamine. Although protamine is safe in a large majority of patients, these adverse events have led our centre to exercise greater selectivity and caution in its use. Protamine Cardiac arrest Ventricular fibrillation Atrial fibrillation ablation What’s new? In the world...

... of subclinical small haematoma collections, which did not postpone patient discharge. Atrial fibrillation ablation Second-generation cryoballoon Ultrasound-guided vascular access Vascular access complications What’s new? This study focuses on our experience with the use of vascular ultrasound (US...

.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract Ablation of non-pulmonary vein (PV) triggers is an important step to improve outcomes in atrial fibrillation ablation. Non-pulmonary vein triggers typically originates from predictable sites (such as the left atrial posterior wall, superior vena cava, coronary sinus, interatrial septum...

... in 2014. The mean healthcare expenditure as % of GDP is weighted by population. Pacemaker Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) Cardiac resynchronisation pacemaker (CRT-P) Cardiac resynchronisation defibrillator (CRT-D) Catheter ablation Atrial fibrillation ablation What’s new...

... the ventricular window because by default it would have been hidden by the system’s ventricular-overlap algorithm and thus not included in the propagation map. Atrial fibrillation ablation High density mapping Pulmonary vein isolation Rhythmia mapping system IntellaMap Orion catheter Successful...

...M.J. Pekka Raatikainen; David O. Arnar; Bela Merkely; A. John Camm; Gerhard Hindricks Pacemaker Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) Cardiac resynchronization pacemaker (CRT-P) Cardiac resynchronization defibrillator (CRT-D) Catheter ablation Atrial fibrillation ablation What's new...