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Factors Affecting Lethal Isotherms During Cryoablation Procedures

BACKGROUND: Creating appropriately-sized, lethal isotherms during cryoablation of renal tumors is critical in order to achieve sufficiently-sized zones of cell death. To ensure adequate cell death in target treatment locations, surgeons must carefully select the type, size, location, and number of p...

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Autores principales: Rau, Andrew C., Siskey, Ryan, Ochoa, Jorge A., Good, Tracy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27583035
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874120701610010062
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Siskey, Ryan
Ochoa, Jorge A.
Good, Tracy
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description BACKGROUND: Creating appropriately-sized, lethal isotherms during cryoablation of renal tumors is critical in order to achieve sufficiently-sized zones of cell death. To ensure adequate cell death in target treatment locations, surgeons must carefully select the type, size, location, and number of probes to be used, as well as various probe operating parameters. OBJECTIVE: The current study investigates the effects of probe type, operating pressure, and clinical method on the resulting sizes of isotherms in an in vitro gelatin model. METHOD: Using a total of four cryoprobes from two manufacturers, freeze procedures were conducted in gelatin in order to compare resulting sizes of constant temperature zones (isotherms). The effects of certain procedural parameters which are clinically adjustable were studied. RESULTS: Test results show that the sizes of 0 °C,-20 °C and -40 °C isotherms created by similarly-sized probes from two different manufacturers were significantly different for nearly all comparisons made, and that size differences resulting from changing the operating pressure were not as prevalent. Furthermore, isotherm sizes created using a multiple freeze procedure (a ten minute freeze, followed by a five minute passive thaw, followed by another ten minute freeze) did not result in statistically-significant differences when compared to those created using a single freeze procedure in all cases. CONCLUSION: These results indicate that selection of the probe manufacturer and probe size may be more important for dictating the size of kill zones during cryoablation than procedural adjustments to operating pressures or freeze times.
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spelling pubmed-49941132016-08-31 Factors Affecting Lethal Isotherms During Cryoablation Procedures Rau, Andrew C. Siskey, Ryan Ochoa, Jorge A. Good, Tracy Open Biomed Eng J Article BACKGROUND: Creating appropriately-sized, lethal isotherms during cryoablation of renal tumors is critical in order to achieve sufficiently-sized zones of cell death. To ensure adequate cell death in target treatment locations, surgeons must carefully select the type, size, location, and number of probes to be used, as well as various probe operating parameters. OBJECTIVE: The current study investigates the effects of probe type, operating pressure, and clinical method on the resulting sizes of isotherms in an in vitro gelatin model. METHOD: Using a total of four cryoprobes from two manufacturers, freeze procedures were conducted in gelatin in order to compare resulting sizes of constant temperature zones (isotherms). The effects of certain procedural parameters which are clinically adjustable were studied. RESULTS: Test results show that the sizes of 0 °C,-20 °C and -40 °C isotherms created by similarly-sized probes from two different manufacturers were significantly different for nearly all comparisons made, and that size differences resulting from changing the operating pressure were not as prevalent. Furthermore, isotherm sizes created using a multiple freeze procedure (a ten minute freeze, followed by a five minute passive thaw, followed by another ten minute freeze) did not result in statistically-significant differences when compared to those created using a single freeze procedure in all cases. CONCLUSION: These results indicate that selection of the probe manufacturer and probe size may be more important for dictating the size of kill zones during cryoablation than procedural adjustments to operating pressures or freeze times. Bentham Open 2016-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4994113/ /pubmed/27583035 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874120701610010062 Text en © Rau et al. Licensee Bentham Open. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27583035
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874120701610010062
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