Esophageal cooling during radiofrequency ablation: Can opposite (strategies) attract?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Editorial

Cory M Tschabrunn et al. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022 Dec.

. 2022 Dec;33(12):2558-2559.

doi: 10.1111/jce.15718. Epub 2022 Nov 3.

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; esophageal cooling; esophageal fistula.

Comment on

Effect of esophageal cooling on ablation lesion formation in the left atrium: Insights from Ablation Index data in the IMPACT trial and clinical outcomes.
Leung LWM, Akhtar Z, Elbatran AI, Bajpai A, Li A, Norman M, Kaba R, Sohal M, Zuberi Z, Gallagher MM; on behalf of the IMPACT Study Group. Leung LWM, et al. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022 Dec;33(12):2546-2557. doi: 10.1111/jce.15717. Epub 2022 Nov 2. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2022. PMID: 36284450 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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