Intracardiac echocardiography-guided pulsed-field ablation for successful ablation of atrial fibrillation: a propensity-matched analysis from a large nationwide multicenter experience.
Antonio Dello RussoClaudio TondoVincenzo SchillaciMichela CasellaSaverio IacopinoStefano BianchiGaetano FassiniAntonio RossilloPaolo CompagnucciMarco SchiavoneArmando SalitoRuggero MaggioLaura CipollettaSakis ThemistoclakisClaudio PandoziPasquale FilanninoPietro RossiCarlo BonannoQuintino ParisiMaurizio MalacridaFrancesco SolimenePublished in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2023)
Our findings confirmed that PFA could be consistently performed in a rapid, safe, and efficacious manner. The use of ICE to guide PFA was not associated with an improvement in procedural metrics.
Keyphrases
- catheter ablation
- atrial fibrillation
- left atrial appendage
- cross sectional
- left atrial
- radiofrequency ablation
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- computed tomography
- clinical trial
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- direct oral anticoagulants
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- mitral valve
- venous thromboembolism