A multicenter prospective randomized study comparing the incidence of periprocedural cerebral embolisms caused by catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation between cryoballoon and radiofrequency ablation (Embo-Abl study): Study design.
Koji MiyamotoKoshiro KanaokaYasutoshi OhtaMasue YohHiroki TakahashiRena Tonegawa-KujiYuichiro MiyazakiKeiko ShimamotoAkinori WakamiyaNobuhiko UedaKenzaburo NakajimaTsukasa KamakuraMitsuru WadaKohei IshibashiYuko InoueSatoshi NagaseTakeshi AibaAkihisa NaraiTomohiro NakaseMasatoshi KogaTetsuya FukudaNaoya KataokaMasahiko TakagiKengo F KusanoPublished in: Clinical cardiology (2022)
The Embo-Abl study will be the first to compare the incidence of periprocedural cerebral embolisms caused by CA of AF between CB and RF ablation in a prospective, multicenter, randomized, controlled fashion.
Keyphrases
- catheter ablation
- atrial fibrillation
- radiofrequency ablation
- left atrial
- left atrial appendage
- direct oral anticoagulants
- double blind
- oral anticoagulants
- risk factors
- tyrosine kinase
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- heart failure
- cross sectional
- open label
- randomized controlled trial
- clinical trial
- acute coronary syndrome
- mitral valve
- phase iii
- phase ii