Kohki Nakamura, Takehito Sasaki, Yutaka Take, Kentaro Minami, Mitsuho Inoue, Chisa Asahina, Wataru Sasaki, Shohei Kishi, Shingo Yoshimura, Yoshinori Okazaki, Hiroyuki Motoda, Katsura Niijima, Yuko Miki, Koji Goto, Kenichi Kaseno, Eiji Yamashita, Keiko Koyama, Nobusada Funabashi, Shigeto Naito
INTRODUCTION: The difference in the incidence and characteristics of silent cerebral events (SCEs) after radiofrequency-based atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation between the different mapping catheters and indices used for guiding radiofrequency ablation remains unclear. This study aimed to compare the incidence and characteristics of postablation SCEs between the following two groups: Group C, Ablation Index-guided ablation using two circular mapping catheters with CARTO (Biosense Webster); Group R, local impedance-guided ablation using one mini-basket catheter and one circular mapping with Rhythmia (Boston Scientific)...
January 2021: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology