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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Radiofrequency Pulmonary Vein Isolation without Esophageal Temperature Monitoring: Contact-Force Characteristics and Incidence of Esophageal Thermal Damage.

Stefan Hartl, Carsten Auf der Heiden, Alexandru Bejinariu, Lukas Clasen, Anna Füting, Stephan Vom Dahl, Tom Lüdde, Malte Kelm, Hisaki Makimoto

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Stefan HartlDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Carsten Auf der HeidenDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0388-7578
Alexandru BejinariuDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4820-3304
Lukas ClasenDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Anna FütingDepartment of Electrophysiology, Alfried Krupp Hospital, 45131 Essen, Germany.
Stephan Vom DahlDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Tom LüddeDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Malte KelmDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Hisaki MakimotoDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEWitten/Herdecke University · DEUniversity of Münster · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Esophageal thermal lesions following pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation (AF) potentially harbor lethal complications. Radiofrequency (RF)-PVI using contact force-technology can reduce collateral damage. We evaluated the incidence of endoscopically detected esophageal lesions (EDEL) and the contribution of contact force to esophageal lesion formation without esophageal temperature monitoring. One hundred and thirty-one AF patients underwent contact force-guided RF-PVI. Contact force, energy, force-time-integral, and force-power-time-integral were adopted. During PVI at the posterior segment of the wide antral circumferential line, limits were set for energy (30 W), duration (30 s) and contact force (40 g). Ablations were analyzed postero-superior and -inferior around PVs. Endoscopy within 120 h identified EDEL in six patients (4.6%). In EDEL(+), obesity was less frequent (17% vs. 68%,

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ablationatrial fibrillationcontact forceesophageal thermal lesionpulmonary vein isolation

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PMID36498492
PMCPMC9741279
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