Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 570-571 , April 2010

Live three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic imaging of novel multielectrode ablation catheters

  • Jonathan K. Ho, MD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Jonathan K. Ho, UCLA Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 757 Westwood Plaza, Suite 3325, Los Angeles, California 90095-7403
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  • Shiro Nakahara, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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  • Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FHRS

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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  • Aman Mahajan, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

References 

  1. Boersma LV, Wijffels MC, Oral H, Wever EF, Morady F. Pulmonary vein isolation by duty-cycled bipolar and unipolar radiofrequency energy with a multielectrode ablation catheter. Heart Rhythm. 2008;5:1635–1642
  2. Mackensen GB, Hegland D, Rivera D, Adams DB, Bahnson TD. Real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography during left atrial radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2008;1:85–86
  3. Yang HS, Srivathsan K, Wissner E, Chandrasekaran K. Images in cardiovascular medicine (Real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography: novel utility in atrial fibrillation ablation with a prosthetic mitral valve). Circulation. 2008;117:e304–e305

 Dr. Mahajan is supported by NIH/NHLBI Grant P01-HL078931 and NIH Grant RO1-HL084261. Dr. Shivkumar is supported by AHA National Affiliate Grant 0430287N and NIH Grant RO1-HL084261.

PII: S1547-5271(09)00806-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.035

Heart Rhythm
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 570-571 , April 2010

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