Journal
HEART RHYTHM
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 353-360Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.11.006
Keywords
catheter ablation; balloon catheter; cryoablation; laser; focused ultrasound; electroanatomical mapping; atria[ fibrillation
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL68064] Funding Source: Medline
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BACKGROUND Unlike the initial balloon ablation catheters that were designed to deliver ablation Lesions within the pulmonary veins (PVs), the current balloon prototypes are fashioned to deliver lesions at the PV ostia. OBJECTIVE Using etectroanatomical mapping, this study evaluates the actual location of ablation Lesions generated by cryobased, laser-based, or uttrasound-based balloon catheters. METHODS In a total of 14 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, PV isolation was performed using either a cryoballoon catheter (8 patients), Laser catheter (4 patients) or ultrasound balloon catheter (2 patients). Patients underwent preprocedural computed tomographic/magnetic resonance imaging. An intracardiac ultrasound catheter was used to aid in positioning the balloon catheter at the PV ostium/antrum. In all patients, sinus rhythm bipolar voltage amplitude maps (using either CARTO with computed tomographic/magnetic resonance image integration or NavX mapping) were generated at baseline and after electrical PV isolation as confirmed by use of a circular mapping catheter. RESULTS Eectrical isolation was achieved in 100% of the PVs. Electroanatomical mapping revealed that after ablation with any of the 3 balloon catheters, the extent of isolation included the tubular portions of each PV to the Level of the PV ostia. However, the PV antral portions were Left Largely unablated with all 3 balloon technologies. CONCLUSION Using the current generation of balloon ablation catheters, electrical isolation occurs at the level of the PV ostia, but the antral regions are Largely unablated.
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