Trial reportJournal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing2013
First experience with a novel robotic remote catheter system: Amigo™ mapping trial.
Trial report in Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Robotics in neurointerventional surgery: a systematic review of the literature.Journal of neurointerventional surgery · 2022Pooled it
- Clinical value of robot-assisted catheter navigation for cardiac electrophysiology ablation: current evidence and future directions.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Review
- Advancements and challenges in autonomous endovascular interventional robotics: A comprehensive review.iScience · 2025Review
- Robotic-Assisted Vascular Surgery: Current Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Portable and Versatile Catheter Robot for Image-Guided Cardiovascular Interventions.IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division · 2025Article
- Advanced Robotics for the Next-Generation of Cardiac Interventions.Micromachines · 2025Review
- An advanced robotic system incorporating haptic feedback for precision cardiac ablation procedures.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Separable Tendon-Driven Robotic Manipulator with a Long, Flexible, Passive Proximal Section.Journal of mechanisms and robotics · 2023Article
- Current State of Robotics in Interventional Radiology.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2023Review
- Multi-mode information fusion navigation system for robot-assisted vascular interventional surgery.BMC surgery · 2023Article
- Technical and Clinical Progress on Robot-Assisted Endovascular Interventions: A Review.Micromachines · 2023Review
- Kinetics Analysis and ADRC-Based Controller for a String-Driven Vascular Intervention Surgical Robotic System.Micromachines · 2022Article
- A Novel Remote-Controlled Vascular Interventional Robotic System Based on Hollow Ultrasonic Motor.Micromachines · 2022Article
- Robotics for neuroendovascular intervention: Background and primer.The neuroradiology journal · 2022Article
- An Isomorphic Interactive Device for the Interventional Surgical Robot after In Vivo Study.Micromachines · 2022Article
- ADRC-Based Control Method for the Vascular Intervention Master-Slave Surgical Robotic System.Micromachines · 2021Article
- A Magnetorheological Fluids-Based Robot-Assisted Catheter/Guidewire Surgery System for Endovascular Catheterization.Micromachines · 2021Article
- Animal Experiment of a Novel Neurointerventional Surgical Robotic System with Master-Slave Mode.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2021Article
- A Remote-Controlled Robotic System with Safety Protection Strategy Based on Force-Sensing and Bending Feedback for Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization.Micromachines · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionAmigo™ (Catheter Robotics, Inc., Mount Olive, NJ) remote catheter system (RCS) was designed to provide a simple and relatively inexpensive system for remote catheter manipulation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance and safety of Amigo in mapping the right side of the heart. METHODS AND
resultsThis non-randomized, prospective clinical trial was conducted at 13 sites (NCT: #01139814). Using the controller, a mapping catheter was moved to eight pre-specified locations in a specific sequence: right ventricular apex, mid-right ventricular septum, right ventricular outflow tract, His-bundle position, coronary sinus ostium, high right atrium, lateral tricuspid annulus, and low lateral right atrium. The pre-specified efficacy endpoint was to achieve 80 % successful navigation to all locations. Time to each location, location accuracy, and quality of contact were confirmed by imaging and specific criteria for electrograms and pacing thresholds. In 181 patients, a total of 1,396 of 1,448 (96 %) locations were successfully mapped with all protocol criteria met (one-sided p value < 0.0001). The median time to move the catheter to a new location was 24 s. The Amigo-related major complication rate was 0 % which was significantly less than the predefined endpoint of 4 % (one-sided p = 0.003).
conclusionWe found the Amigo RCS to be safe and effective for positioning a mapping catheter at sites within the right atrium and ventricle.
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