[EN] Recent clinical studies on intraoperative monopolar radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation have reported some cases of injury to the esophagus. The aim of this study was to perform computer simulations using ...
Tobón Zuluaga, Catalina; Ruiz Villa, Carlos Alberto; Heidenreich, Elvio; Romero Pérez, Lucia; Hornero, Fernando; Saiz Rodríguez, Francisco Javier(Public Library of Science, 2013-02)
The most common sustained cardiac arrhythmias in humans are atrial tachyarrhythmias, mainly atrial fibrillation. Areas of complex fractionated atrial electrograms and high dominant frequency have been proposed as critical ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in clinical practice. One frequent and very effective alternative to revert AF back to a normal sinus rhythm (NSR) is external electrical cardioversion (ECV). ...
[EN] Objective: To identify preoperative parameters of anatomo-electrical atrial remodelling in order to identify the subgroup of patients more favourable to long-term sinus rhythm (SR) re-establishment after concomitant ...
The standard electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most common non-invasive way to study atrial fibrillation (AF). In this respect, previous works have shown that the surface lead V 1 reflects mainly the dominant atrial frequency ...
[EN] The aim of this work was to study linear deterministic models to predict tissue temperature during radiofrequency cardiac ablation (RFCA) by measuring magnitudes such as electrode temperature, power and impedance ...
[EN] A great deal of current research is directed to finding a way to minimize thermal injury in the esophagus during radiofrequency catheter ablation of the atrium. A recent clinical study employing a cooling intraesophageal ...
Tobón Zuluaga, Catalina; Rodriguez, Jose Felix; Ferrero De Loma-Osorio, José María; Hornero, Fernando; Saiz Rodríguez, Francisco Javier(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-11)
Aims To study, using simulation, the spectral characteristics of different patterns of atrial fibrillation (AF) at high spatial resolution. Dominant frequency (DF) and organization index (OI) maps have been used to approximate ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly diagnosed arrhythmia in clinical practice. However, the mechanisms responsible for its induction and maintenance still are not fully understood. To this respect, analysis of ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in routine clinical practice. Despite many years of research, its mechanisms still are not well understood, thus reducing the effectiveness of AF treatments. Nowadays, ...
[EN] Although previous studies have established the feasibility of monitoring esophageal temperature during radiofrequency cardiac ablation using an esophageal temperature probe (ETP), some questions remain regarding its ...
[EN] Radiofrequency (RF) cardiac ablation is used to treat certain types of arrhythmias. In the epicardial approach, efficacy of RF ablation is uncertain due to the presence of epicardial adipose tissue interposed between ...
[EN] The efficacy of treating atrial fibrillation by RF ablation on the epicardial surface is currently under question due to the presence of epicardial adipose tissue interposed between the ablation electrode and target ...
Alcaraz, Raúl; Hornero, Fernando; Rieta Ibañez, José Joaquín(wiley, 2011-05-23)
Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A method able to predict robustly long-standing ...
Escribano, Pilar; Ródenas, Juan; García, Manuel; Hornero, Fernando; Gracia-Baena, Juan M.; Alcaraz, Raúl; Rieta, J J(MDPI AG, 2024-01)
[EN] Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia often treated concomitantly with other cardiac interventions through the Cox-Maze procedure. This highly invasive intervention is still linked to a long-term ...
The Cox-maze surgery is an effective procedure for terminating atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients requiring open-heart surgery associated with another heart disease. After the intervention, regardless of the patient's ...
[EN] Cooled Balloon Prevents Thermal Injury During RF Ablation.
Introduction: The use of a cooled intraesophageal balloon has recently been proposed to minimize the risk of thermal injury in the esophagus during radiofrequency ...
This paper proposes the first non-invasive method for direct and short-time regularity quantification of atrial fibrillatory (f) waves from the surface ECG in atrial fibrillation (AF). Regularity is estimated by computing ...
The complete understanding of the mechanisms leading to the initiation, maintenance and self-termination of atrial fibrillation (AF) still is an unsolved challenge for cardiac electrophysiology. Studies in which AF has ...