Personalized pulmonary vein antrum isolation guided by left atrial wall thickness for persistent atrial fibrillation.
Giulio FalasconiDiego PenelaDavid Soto-IglesiasPietro FranciaCheryl TeresAndrea SagliettoBeatriz JaureguiDaniel ViverosAldo BellidoJose AldereteJulia Meca-SantamariaPaula Franco-OcañaCarlo GaspardoneRodolfo San AntonioMarina HuguetOscar CamaraJosé-Tomás Ortiz-PérezJulio Martí-AlmorAntonio BerruezoPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2023)
In this prospective study, LAWT-guided PV antrum isolation for PeAF was effective and efficient, requiring low procedure, fluoroscopy, and RF time. A randomized trial comparing the LAWT-guided ablation with the standard of practice is in progress (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05396534).