Cardiac CT assessment of tissue thickness at the ostium of the left atrial appendage predicts acute success of radiofrequency ablation.
John WhitakerSandeep PanikkerThomas FastlCesare CorradoRenu VirmaniRobert KutysEric LimMark O'NeillEd NicolSteven NiedererTom WongPublished in: Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE (2017)
CCT imaging may be used to detect differences in wall thickness at different atrial locations and success of LAA ablation may be affected by local tissue thickness. Atrial wall thickness may need to be considered as a metric to guide titration of radiofrequency energy for safe and successful ablation.