Determinants of acute irreversible electroporation lesion characteristics after pulsed field ablation: the role of voltage, contact, and adipose interference.
Alessio GasperettiFabrizio R AssisHemantkumar TripathiMasahito SuzukiAkhilesh GonuguntlaRushil ShahJames R SampognaroMarco SchiavoneParag KarmarkarHarikrishna TandriPublished 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 a vegetal and animal model for IRE assessment, PFA lesion characteristics were found to be strongly dependent on voltage settings and NoC, with a quasi-linear relationship. Lack of catheter contact was associated with dampening in lesion depth.