High-power, low-flow, short-ablation duration—the key to avoid collateral injury?
- 30 October 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Vol. 55 (1) , 9-16
Abstract
A common approach to ablating along the posterior wall of the left atrium in atrial fibrillation ablation is to use low power with longer duration for durable lesions and reducing thermal injury. We hypothesize that similar lesions can be safely obtained at high power with low open-irrigation flow and low duration.Keywords
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