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Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Imaging of pulmonary vein (PV) anatomy by angiography before pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation (AF) has long been standard practice in many centers. Nowadays, very accurate anatomical maps can be generated by the use of high-resolution mapping catheters, and very effective ablat...

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Autores principales: Weyand, Sebastian, Adam, Viola, Beuter, Matthias, Hanger, Simon, Heinzmann, David, Schrezenmeier, Willibald, Seizer, Peter
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9917939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36769742
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12031094
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author Weyand, Sebastian
Adam, Viola
Beuter, Matthias
Hanger, Simon
Heinzmann, David
Schrezenmeier, Willibald
Seizer, Peter
author_facet Weyand, Sebastian
Adam, Viola
Beuter, Matthias
Hanger, Simon
Heinzmann, David
Schrezenmeier, Willibald
Seizer, Peter
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description Imaging of pulmonary vein (PV) anatomy by angiography before pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation (AF) has long been standard practice in many centers. Nowadays, very accurate anatomical maps can be generated by the use of high-resolution mapping catheters, and very effective ablation lesions can be generated by the use of the high-power, short-duration (HPSD) technique. In our center, PV angiography was routinely performed before PVI. However, since there is no clear evidence for this, we refrained from performing PV angiography. This study aimed to investigate whether PV angiography is still necessary when using high-resolution mapping catheters after ablation in the high-power, short-duration (HPSD) technique. A total of 139 consecutive patients with atrial fibrillation (66.25 ± 11.68 years old, 62.39% male) undergoing radiofrequency PVI were included in the study. Ablation was performed with the HPSD technique using a fixed protocol for energy delivery of 50 watts (contact force 3–20 g). We observed no significant effect on the efficacy, efficiency and complications of the ablation procedure if pulmonary vein angiography was omitted before HPSD PVI. Thus, using our protocol, it may be useful that PV angiography is avoided, especially in young patients and those with chronic renal disease.
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spelling pubmed-99179392023-02-11 Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Weyand, Sebastian Adam, Viola Beuter, Matthias Hanger, Simon Heinzmann, David Schrezenmeier, Willibald Seizer, Peter J Clin Med Article Imaging of pulmonary vein (PV) anatomy by angiography before pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation (AF) has long been standard practice in many centers. Nowadays, very accurate anatomical maps can be generated by the use of high-resolution mapping catheters, and very effective ablation lesions can be generated by the use of the high-power, short-duration (HPSD) technique. In our center, PV angiography was routinely performed before PVI. However, since there is no clear evidence for this, we refrained from performing PV angiography. This study aimed to investigate whether PV angiography is still necessary when using high-resolution mapping catheters after ablation in the high-power, short-duration (HPSD) technique. A total of 139 consecutive patients with atrial fibrillation (66.25 ± 11.68 years old, 62.39% male) undergoing radiofrequency PVI were included in the study. Ablation was performed with the HPSD technique using a fixed protocol for energy delivery of 50 watts (contact force 3–20 g). We observed no significant effect on the efficacy, efficiency and complications of the ablation procedure if pulmonary vein angiography was omitted before HPSD PVI. Thus, using our protocol, it may be useful that PV angiography is avoided, especially in young patients and those with chronic renal disease. MDPI 2023-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9917939/ /pubmed/36769742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12031094 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Weyand, Sebastian
Adam, Viola
Beuter, Matthias
Hanger, Simon
Heinzmann, David
Schrezenmeier, Willibald
Seizer, Peter
Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title_full Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title_fullStr Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title_short Effect of Left Atrial Pulmonary Vein Angiography on Safety and Efficacy for High-Power, Short-Duration Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title_sort effect of left atrial pulmonary vein angiography on safety and efficacy for high-power, short-duration pulmonary vein isolation in patients with atrial fibrillation
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9917939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36769742
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12031094
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