The fourth cryoballoon generation with a shorter tip to facilitate real-time pulmonary vein potential recording: Feasibility and safety results.
Florian StraubeUwe DorwarthJanis PongratzBenedikt BrückMichael WankerlStefan HartlEllen HoffmannPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2019)
The CBG4 with a shorter distal tip seems to be safe and effective, and allows determining the TTI in 84.8% of PVs. In case of balloon instability, the exchange of the SMC to a stiff wire or, in small PV, the 23 mm cryoballoon facilitate PVI.