1. Efficacy and safety in patients treated with a novel radiofrequency balloon: a two centres experience from the AURORA collaboration
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Stefano Bordignon, Ilaria My, Shota Tohoku, Andreas Rillig, David Schaack, Shaojie Chen, Bruno Reißmann, Lukas Urbanek, Jun Hirokami, Tolga Efe, Ramin Ebrahimi, Mahi Butt, Feifan Ouyang, Julian K R Chun, Andreas Metzner, and Boris Schmidt
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Physiology (medical) ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine - Abstract
Aims A novel irrigated radiofrequency (RF) balloon (RFB) for pulmonary vein (PV) isolation (PVI) was released in selected centres. We pooled the procedural data on efficacy and safety of RFB-PVI from two high volume German centres. Methods and results Consecutive patients with RFB procedures were enrolled. A 3D electroanatomical left atrial map guided the RFB navigation. Every RF delivery lasted 60 s, and duration was automatically reduced to 20 s for electrodes facing the posterior wall. Procedural data and post-procedural endoscopy data ( Conclusion The RFB showed a high efficacy allowing for fast PVI procedures, and 60% of PVs could be isolated at the first application. Most safety events were recorded during the learning phase. An oesophageal temperature monitoring is suggested: oesophageal lesions were detected in 8% of patients.
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- 2023
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