Bipolar Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Left Ventricular Summit Arrhythmias
Piotr Futyma1, William H Sauer2
1Medical College, University of Rzeszów and St. Joseph's Heart Rhythm Center, Anny Jagiellonki 17, Rzeszów 35-623, Poland.
Abstract:
Challenging anatomic and morphologic conditions of the left ventricular (LV) summit architecture and its surrounding sites may prevent sufficient heating of the targeted area during standard radiofrequency catheter ablation. Bipolar ablation can result in higher likelihood of efficacy for ablation of LV summit arrhythmias from inaccessible regions and increase the chance of achieving a transmural lesion. In this review, the authors describe the present approaches for bipolar ablation of the LV summit arrhythmias refractory to standard approaches.
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