Why the study?
Can contact-force recovery predict cardiac perforation following a steam pop during radiofrequency ablation?
Can contact-force recovery predict cardiac perforation following a steam pop during radiofrequency ablation?
In a sheep model, the absence of contact-force recovery immediately following a steam pop during radiofrequency ablation predicted cardiac perforation.
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Absence of rebound may signal perforation risk in animal models; hypothesis-generating for human ablation, needs clinical validation.
Nazeri et al. (2014) studied this question.
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