Proactive esophageal cooling during laser cardiac ablation: A computer modeling study.

Tatiana Gomez Bustamante Marcela Mercado Enrique Berjano Ana Gonzalez-Suarez Erik Kulstad

Published in: Lasers in surgery and medicine (2024)

PEC reduces the potential for esophageal injury without degrading the intended cardiac lesions for a variety of different tissue thicknesses. Thermal latency may influence lesion formation during laser ablation and may play a part in any collateral damage.

Keyphrases

left ventricular
radiofrequency ablation
high speed
oxidative stress
deep learning
catheter ablation
heart failure
risk assessment
atrial fibrillation
high resolution