ArticleJournal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing2024
Feasibility and efficacy of a novel size adjustable cryoballoon for ablation of atrial fibrillation.
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- Mechanistic insights into the learning curve of cryoballoon ablation: ablation temperature mediates the effect of operator experience on radiation exposure.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal tissue temperature during cryoablation using different balloons.Heart rhythm O2 · 2025Article
- Impact of cryoballoon size adjustability on procedural and clinical outcomes.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- Prospective evaluation of antral lesion size of the 31-mm size of a novel size-adjustable cryoballoon: Results of the BETTER-FIT study.Heart rhythm O2 · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of left atrial size and appendage morphology in paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation patients.Journal of arrhythmia · 2025Article
- Contemporary Trends in Pulsed Field Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmias.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Review
- A randomized controlled trial of the size-adjustable cryoballoon vs conventional cryoballoon for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: The CONTRAST-CRYO II trial rationale and design.Heart rhythm O2 · 2024Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present case series was to characterize the feasibility of a novel size adjustable cryoballoon system (PolarX Fit, Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA, USA). This cryoballoon catheter can be inflated to two different diameters (28 mm and 31 mm) within the same procedure allowing vein adapted PVI. In summary, the novel size adjustable cryoballoon shows similar characteristics as the established versions. The intraprocedural flexibility of balloon size led to employment of the larger variant in the majority of freeze applications. Of note, in all but one procedure, both sizes were employed to ensure optimal occlusion for all veins. This initial series suggests that the size adjustable balloon offers more flexibility of obtain optimal occlusions in particular, in challenging anatomies, including common pulmonary vein ostia.
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