Catheter contact angle influences local impedance drop during radiofrequency catheter ablation: Insight from a porcine experimental study with 2 different LI-sensing catheters.
Gen MatsuuraHidehira FukayaEmiyu OgawaSota KawakamiHitoshi MoriDaiki SaitoTetsuro SatoHironori NakamuraNaruya IshizueJun OikawaJun KishiharaShinichi NiwanoJunya AkoPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2022)
The LI drop and lesion widths at 90° were significantly smaller than those at 30°, although the lesion depths were not different among the 3 angles for the MiFi and STABLEPOINT.