Advances in Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Left Atrial Anatomy Revisited

Advances in Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Left Atrial Anatomy Revisited

Recent decades have seen rapid developments in arrhythmia treatment, especially the use of catheter ablation. Although the substrates of atrial fibrillation, its initiation and maintenance, remain to be fully elucidated, catheter ablation in the left atrium has become a therapeutic option for patients with this arrhythmia. With ablation techniques, various isolation lines and focal targets are ...

Durable single shot cryoballoon isolation of the left atrial appendage followed by percutaneous left atrial appendage closure.

An image-based model of atrial muscular architecture: effects of structural anisotropy on electrical activation.

BACKGROUND Computer models that capture key features of the heterogeneous myofiber architecture of right and left atria and interatrial septum provide a means of investigating the mechanisms responsible for atrial arrhythmia. The data necessary to implement such models have not previously been available. The aims of this study were to characterize surface geometry and myofiber architecture thro...

Combined MR-Xray Suites: An essential pre-requisite for MR-EP?

Over the last two decades, advances in the understanding of arrhythmia mechanism and catheter design have resulted in a high degree of success for the cure of regular narrow complex tachycardias. Extension of the principles and techniques of conventional electrophysiology (EP) to more complex arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation (AF), atypical left atrial flutters and scar-related ventricula...

Inequalities for Left Atrial Ablation.