A useful trick for difficult transseptal access during cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation
Giulio Conte1, Gian-Battista Chierchia, Pedro Brugada
1Cardiovascular Division, UZ Brussel-VUB, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels (Belgium). giulioconte.cardio@gmail.com.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|February 4, 2014
Abstract:
A 76-year-old man with history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery was referred to our department for cryoballoon ablation of symptomatic drug-resistant paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Thick septum can complicate such procedures; we describe a useful maneuver to circumvent this problem.
