High-power short duration ablation for pulmonary vein isolation: simply cranking up the energy?

Affiliations

¹ Clinic for interventional Electrophysiology, Heart Center Rhön Clinic Bad Neustadt, Rhön Klinikum Campus, Von-Guttenberg-Str. 11, 97616 Bad Neustadt, Germany.
² Department for Cardiology/Invasive Electrophysiology, Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria.

Editorial

Thomas Deneke et al. Europace. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 1;22(3):335-337.

doi: 10.1093/europace/euaa020.

¹ Clinic for interventional Electrophysiology, Heart Center Rhön Clinic Bad Neustadt, Rhön Klinikum Campus, Von-Guttenberg-Str. 11, 97616 Bad Neustadt, Germany.
² Department for Cardiology/Invasive Electrophysiology, Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria.

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Safety and outcome of very high-power short-duration ablation using 70 W for pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
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