Ablation Techniques in a Patient with a Right Accessory Pulmonary Vein. Is it Always Feasible?

• Main Authors: Tsiachris, Dimitris, Kourgiannidis, George, Doulamis, Vasilis, Stefanadis, Christodoulos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Hospital Chronicles 2017
• Subjects: cryoablation; pulmonary vein isolation; atrial fibrillation; Arctic; Lone
• Online Access: http://www.hospitalchronicles.gr/index.php/hchr/article/view/766

A 32-year-old woman with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation had two pulmomary vein isolation procedures over 1 year, by means of the circular multipolar duty-cycled radiofrequency PVAC in the first and the Thermocool® SmartTouchTM catheter in the second procedure. Following both procedures, the pat...