Isolation of pulmonary veins with duty-cycled circular multi-polar catheter : randomized controlled clinical trial
| Autor: | Pinto, Fausto J., Sobral, S., Ribeiro, J., Barreiros, C., Bernardes, Ana, António, P. Silvério, Ferreira, A. Nunes, Silva, Gustavo Lima, Carpinteiro, Luís, Cortez-Dias, Nuno, Sousa, João de |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| Popis: | Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2019. For permissions please email: Journals.permissions@oup.com. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) Introduction: Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is the central element in the ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), and can be obtained with different ablation modalities. The dutycycled circular multipole catheter PVAC® (Medtronic) allows linear application of radiofrequency energy, with the production of circumferential lesions. Conceptually, it can make ablation simpler and faster in patients with favorable anatomy. |
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