Christian-H Heeger, Makoto Sano, Sorin Ștefan Popescu, Behnam Subin, Marcel Feher, Huong-Lan Phan, Bettina Kirstein, Julia Vogler, Charlotte Eitel, Sascha Hatahet, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Roland R Tilz
AIMS: The very high-power short-duration (vHP-SD) radiofrequency (RF) ablation concept of atrial fibrillation (AF) treatment by pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) aims for safer, more effective, and faster procedures. Utilizing conventional ablation, the 'close protocol' has been verified. Since lesion formation of vHP-SD ablation creates wider but shallower lesions we adapted the close protocol to an individualized and tighter 'very-close protocol' of 3-4 mm of inter-lesion distance (ILD) at the anterior and 5-6 mm at the posterior aspect of the left atrium using vHP-SD only...
March 30, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology