Development of a novel ablation hood to prevent systemic embolization of microbubbles and particulate emboli.

Alan M SugrueVaibhav VaidyaOmar YasinAmeesh IsathAnas AbudanDeepak PadmanabhanSuraj KapaSamuel J Asirvatham

Published in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2019)

Use of a novel hood to cover the ablation catheter at the site of catheter-tissue contact has the potential to provide a means to reduce systematic embolization of microbubbles. Further work is required to examine particulate emboli, but these data show the early feasibility of this design concept.

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