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SUBMITTER: Bollmann A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4612860 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bollmann Andreas A Kosiuk Jedrzej J Hilbert Sebastian S John Silke S Hindricks Gerhard G
International journal of clinical and experimental medicine 20150815 8
<h4>Introduction</h4>The porcine model is generally accepted for the development and testing of new forms oftherapy including ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the challenging left atrial (LA) and pulmonary vein (PV) anatomy enables only limited percutaneous catheter-based PV access.<h4>Results</h4>Here we present I) an alternative percutaneous transapical access, which enables easy and safe retrograde transmitral LA and PV mapping and ablation; II) early experience of LA mapping an ...[more]