Incidence and Predictors of Stroke and Silent Cerebral Embolism Following Very High-Power Short-Duration Atrial Fibrillation Ablation.

Márton Boga Ferenc Imre Suhai Gábor Orbán Zoltán Salló Klaudia Vivien Nagy Levente Szegedi Zsófia Jokkel Judit Csőre István Osztheimer Péter Perge Dhiraj Gupta Bela MerkelyLászló GellérNándor Szegedi

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)

vHPSD PVI is a safe technique with an excellent acute success rate. SCE incidence in our cohort was below the previously reported range, with no clinically overt cerebral complications. Lower baseline generator-impedance and loss of contact during ablation may contribute to a higher risk of SCEs.

Keyphrases

atrial fibrillation
catheter ablation
risk factors
subarachnoid hemorrhage
left atrial
cerebral ischemia
liver failure
left atrial appendage
oral anticoagulants
radiofrequency ablation
heart failure
direct oral anticoagulants
drug induced
computed tomography
cerebral blood flow
venous thromboembolism
dual energy