Angioplasty Guidewire-Assisted Versus Conventional Transseptal Puncture for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (ADVANCE-LAAO): A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

Feng Hu Bin Xu Zhiqing QiaoFuyu ChengZien Zhou Zhi-Guo ZouMinhua ZangSong DingJun HongYuquan XieYong ZhouJianFeng Huang Jun Pu

Published 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)

This study confirmed that angioplasty guidewire-assisted puncture can effectively improve the success rate of TSP during LAAO. This novel technique has high potential for application in interventional therapies requiring TSP.

Keyphrases

left atrial appendage
randomized controlled trial
atrial fibrillation
ultrasound guided
study protocol
catheter ablation
clinical trial
risk assessment
meta analyses