Quest for safe and feasible isolation of superior vena cava by pulsed-field ablation: are we there yet?

Moussa Mansour; Sanghamitra Mohanty; Andrea Natale

doi:10.1093/europace/euae159

Quest for safe and feasible isolation of superior vena cava by pulsed-field ablation: are we there yet?

Europace. 2024 Jul 2;26(7):euae159. doi: 10.1093/europace/euae159.

Authors

Moussa Mansour¹, Sanghamitra Mohanty², Andrea Natale^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Electrophysiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, 3000 N. I-35, Suite 720, Austin, TX 78705, USA.
³ Interventional Electrophysiology, Scripps Clinic, 10666 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Metro Health Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2500 Metrohealth Dr, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA.
⁵ Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Division of Cardiology, University of Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1, Rome 00133, Italy.

Abstract

Graphical Abstract

Bar diagram shows ablation outcomes in patients undergoing PFA-based SVCI with vs. without ICE guidance. PNS, phrenic nerve stunning; SND, sinus node dysfunction; ICE, intracardiac echocardiography; SVCI, superior vena cava isolation.

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MeSH terms

Atrial Fibrillation* / surgery
Catheter Ablation* / methods
Humans
Treatment Outcome
Vena Cava, Superior* / surgery