ReviewJournal of the American College of Cardiology2020
Transcatheter Electrosurgery: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
Review in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mitral Valve Leaflet Modification: A Working Group Position Statement on Best Practices and Step-by-Step Guide.JACC. Cardiovascular interventions · 2026Guideline
- Lifetime management of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis: a computed tomography simulation study.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2022Trial
- Use of the Electrified Wire Technique for In Situ Fenestration Creation Within a Branch Bridging Stent.Journal of endovascular therapy : an official journal of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists · 2026Article
- Transcatheter Electrosurgical Unification of a Fenestrated Atrial Septal Defect for Single Device Closure.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- The Expanding Therapeutic Armamentarium for Mitral Regurgitation: Surgical and Transcatheter Interventions.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Simplified UNICORN for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Transcatheter Electrosurgery for Coronary Access After TAVI-in-TAVI.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Failure Mechanisms in Off-Label Electrosurgery Devices for BASILICA, LAMPOON, and SESAME.JACC. Cardiovascular interventions · 2026Article
- Transcatheter Electrosurgical Loop Resection of a Right Ventricular Fibromyxoma.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Aortic Valve Leaflet Modification: A Working Group Position Statement on Best Practices and Step-by-Step Guide.JACC. Cardiovascular interventions · 2026Review
- A New Paradigm for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Obesity Focusing on Substrate Remodeling and Patient-Centered Outcomes.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Comparison of a guidewire with an uninsulated tip versus dedicated radiofrequency wire with discrete electrode for energy-based transseptal puncture: a pre-clinical study.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2025Article
- A comparison of laser, electrosurgical, and mechanical transcatheter traversal of calcified aortic valve leaflets.JTCVS structural and endovascular · 2025Article
- Transcaval access for transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- Devices and approaches for leaflet modification.JTCVS structural and endovascular · 2024Article
- Early results of transcatheter electrosurgical aortic septotomy for endovascular repair of chronic dissecting aortoiliac aneurysms.Journal of vascular surgery cases and innovative techniques · 2024Article
- Transcatheter electrosurgical septotomy technique for chronic postdissection aortic aneurysms.Journal of vascular surgery cases and innovative techniques · 2024Article
- Transseptal BATMAN for High-Risk Valve-in-Ring Procedures: A Case Series.JACC. Case reports · 2024Article
- The Simplified Extraction of Atrial Tumor With Targeted Loop Electricity (SEATTLE) Procedure.JACC. Case reports · 2023Article
- Transcatheter Hepatic Conduit-Azygous Vein Connection Reduces Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations in a Cyanotic Fontan Patient.JACC. Case reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Transcatheter electrosurgery refers to a family of procedures using radiofrequency energy to vaporize and traverse or lacerate tissue despite flowing blood. The authors review theory, simulations, and benchtop demonstrations of how guidewires, insulation, adjunctive catheters, and dielectric medium interact. For tissue traversal, all but the tip of traversing guidewires is insulated to concentrate current. For leaflet laceration, the "Flying V" configuration concentrates current at the inner lacerating surface of a kinked guidewire. Flooding the field with non-ionic dextrose eliminates alternative current paths. Clinical applications include traversing occlusions (pulmonary atresia, arterial and venous occlusion, and iatrogenic graft occlusion), traversing tissue planes (atrial and ventricular septal puncture, radiofrequency valve repair, transcaval access, Potts and Glenn shunts), and leaflet laceration (BASILICA, LAMPOON, ELASTA-Clip, and others). Tips are provided for optimizing these techniques. Transcatheter electrosurgery already enables a range of novel therapeutic procedures for structural heart disease, and represents a promising advance toward transcatheter surgery.
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