A Novel Visually Guided Radiofrequency Balloon Ablation Catheter for Pulmonary Vein Isolation: One-Year Outcomes of the Multicenter AF-FICIENT I Trial

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2021 Oct;14(10):e009308. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009308. Epub 2021 Sep 29.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Homolka Hospital, Prague, Czechia (V.Y.R., P.N.).
² Helmsley Electrophysiology Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (V.Y.R., A.S.).
³ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center, Austin (A.A.-A.).
⁴ Centre for Cardiology and Angiology, Vilnius University, Lithuania (A.A., G.R.).
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand (M.D., I.M., I.G.C.).
⁶ Boston Scientific Corp., Electrophysiology, St. Paul, MN (Y.H., M.S.).
⁷ Cardiovascular Department, Sanatorio Italiano, Asunción, Paraguay (A.E.).
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand (D.A.H.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; pulmonary veins; radiofrequency ablation.