David Schaack, Boris Schmidt, Shota Tohoku, Stefano Bordignon, Lukas Urbanek, Ramin Ebrahimi, Jun Hirokami, Tolga Han Efe, Shaojie Chen, Kr Julian Chun
Catheter ablation is a widely used, effective and safe treatment for AF. Pulsed field ablation (PFA), as a novel energy source for cardiac ablation, has been shown to be tissue selective and is expected to decrease damage to non-cardiac tissue while providing high efficacy in pulmonary vein isolation. The FARAPULSE ablation system (Boston Scientific) follows the idea of single-shot ablation and is the first device approved for clinical use in Europe. Since its approval, multiple high-volume centres have performed increasing numbers of PFA procedures in patients with AF and have published their experiences...
2023: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review