Effect of Fat Deposition on the Performance in RF Ablation
IntroductionThe outcomes of catheter ablation of scar-mediated ventricular tachycardia (VT) remain far from perfect. The presence of fat as a component of the ...
Pérez, Juan J; D Avila, Andre; Aryana, Arash; Berjano, Enrique(Blackwell Publishing, 2015)
[EN] Electrical and Thermal Effects of Esophageal Temperature Probes
IntroductionLuminal esophageal temperature (LET) monitoring is commonly employed during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) to detect high ...
Aryana, Arash; Irastorza, Ramiro M.; Berjano, Enrique; Cohen, Richard J.; Kraus, Jeffrey; Haghighi-Mood, Ali; Reddy, Vivek Y.; D Avila, Andre(Blackwell Publishing, 2022-06)
[EN] Introduction: During radiofrequency ablation (RFA) using conventional RFA catheters (RFC), similar to 90% of the energy dissipates into the bloodstream/surrounding tissue. We hypothesized that a novel insulated-tip ...