Tailored Approach to Ablation Hakan Oral Fred Morady In recent years, radiofrequency catheter ablation has evolved into an effective treatment modality for many patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Although compartmentalization…
Electrogram-Guided Ablation Evan Lockwood Koonlawee Nademanee In 1994, Swartz et al. (1) ushered in an era of incredible growth in the understanding and treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) with their…
Linear Left Atrial Ablation Mélèze Hocini Kang-Teng Lim Prashanthan Sanders Pierre Jaïs Seiichiro Matsuo Sébastien Knecht Leonardo Arantès Mark O’Neill Yoshihide Takahashi Jacques Clémenty Michel Haïssaguerre Over the last decade,…
Circumferential Ablation with PV Isolation Guided by Lasso Catheter Feifan Ouyang Kazuhiro Satomi Karl-Heinz Kuck Dr. Kazuhiro Satomi is supported by the Research Grant Abroad of the Japan Heart Foundation…
Circumferential Atrial Ablation Carlo Pappone Vincenzo Santinelli At present, there is a great enthusiasm for the possible use of radiofrequency catheter ablation techniques to “cure” atrial fibrillation (AF). According to…
Noncontact Mapping Satoshi Higa Yenn-Jiang Lin Ching-Tai Tai Shih-Ann Chen The curative ablation strategies of atrial fibrillation (AF) have rapidly evolved but have still not become standardized because the variable…
Magnetic and Robotic Navigation Bruce D. Lindsay Mitchell Faddis The advent of ablation procedures for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias accelerated the development of technology to facilitate catheter manipulation and imaging….
Electroanatomic Mapping Systems Anshul M. Patel Vivek Y. Reddy Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) is dependent on a firm understanding of left atrial (LA) and pulmonary venous (PV) anatomy….
Intracardiac Ultrasound Jonathan S. Steinberg Kataneh Maleki Jayanthi Koneru Farooq Chaudhry Vascular-based ablation procedures require the accurate placement of catheters at target tissues to deliver ablative energy to interrupt arrhythmia…
Preprocedure Preparation Jose F. Huizar Mark A. Wood Karoly Kaszala Kenneth A. Ellenbogen In preparation for catheter-based ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), a significant amount of pertinent information should be…
