Nation's first cardiac ablation with mapping system recently cleared by the FDA performed at Penn Medicine

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) After eight years of failed treatment for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), Janet Szilagyi, 78 of Clayton, New Jersey, became the first patient in the United States to undergo cardiac ablation -- a procedure in which an electrophysiologist will scar or destroy tissue in the heart that's allowing incorrect electrical signals to cause an abnormal heart rhythm -- using an intraoperative imaging and mapping system recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uops-nfc050318.php

Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news