Why the study?
Does intracardiac echocardiography guidance compared to fluoroscopy improve the creation of continuous left atrial linear lesions in healthy dogs?
Population
6 healthy dogs
Comparison
Radiofrequency ablation for left atrial linear… vs Radiofrequency ablation with blinded…
Design
Preclinical, randomized fashion, blinded echocardiographic monitoring
Authors
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Preclinical data support ICE and low-power RF for predicting lesions; leaves open clinical utility in human linear ablation.
Does intracardiac echocardiography guidance compared to fluoroscopy improve the creation of continuous left atrial linear lesions in healthy dogs?
Intracardiac echocardiography and preablation parameters, particularly low-power RF application, accurately predict the creation of continuous left atrial linear lesions in a canine model.
Roithinger et al. (1999) studied this question.
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