The Role of Angle in the Evaluation of Ablation Accuracy in Pulmonary Vein Isolation Navigated by Image Integration.

CONCLUSION: Our finding indicates that both the angle and the distance can be significantly reduced by navigation with image integration, but that the angle exhibited better sensitivity than the conventional index of distance. We suggest that the angle should be considered as a new index for ablation accuracy. PMID: 30604665 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: The Heart Surgery Forum - November 6, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Chen SW, Cai LD, Asakawa T, Zhou GQ, Wei Y, Qi BZ, Ling ZY, Wu HQ, Xu J, Liu SW Tags: Heart Surg Forum Source Type: research