Optimal interlesion distance in ablation index-guided pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation.
Shuhei KobayashiHidehira FukayaJun OikawaDaiki SaitoTetsuro SatoGen MatsuuraYuki ArakawaYuki ShirakawaRyo NishinaritaAi HoriguchiNaruya IshizueJun KishiharaShinichi NiwanoJunya AkoPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2020)
The optimal interlesion distances for PVI were different in each PV segment. To achieve the first-pass isolation, less than 5.4/4.4 mm for the RPV anterior/posterior and 5.5/5.1 mm for the LPV anterior/posterior walls of interlesion distances were the best cutoff values in the patients with AF.