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Why is pulmonary vein isolation not enough for vagal denervation in all cases?

Tolga AksuTumer Erdem GulerSerdar BozyelKivanc YalinRakesh Gopinathan Nair
Published in: Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE (2020)
Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) may cause vagal response during radiofrequency application or increase on heart rate after ablation. All those responses are related to inadvertent ablation effect on ganglionated plexi. In the present case, we aimed to explain why vagal response effects of PVI are not same in all cases.
Keyphrases
  • heart rate
  • heart rate variability
  • blood pressure
  • catheter ablation
  • radiofrequency ablation