Radiofrequency Pulmonary Vein Isolation without Esophageal Temperature Monitoring: Contact-Force Characteristics and Incidence of Esophageal Thermal Damage

Esophageal thermal lesions following pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation (AF) potentially harbor lethal complications. Radiofrequency (RF)-PVI using contact force-technology can reduce collateral damage. We evaluated the incidence of endoscopically detected esophageal lesions (EDE...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical medicine 2022-11, Vol.11 (23), p.6917
Hauptverfasser: Hartl, Stefan, Auf der Heiden, Carsten, Bejinariu, Alexandru, Clasen, Lukas, Füting, Anna, Vom Dahl, Stephan, Lüdde, Tom, Kelm, Malte, Makimoto, Hisaki
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Zusammenfassung:Esophageal thermal lesions following pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for atrial fibrillation (AF) potentially harbor lethal complications. Radiofrequency (RF)-PVI using contact force-technology can reduce collateral damage. We evaluated the incidence of endoscopically detected esophageal lesions (EDEL) and the contribution of contact force to esophageal lesion formation without esophageal temperature monitoring. One hundred and thirty-one AF patients underwent contact force-guided RF-PVI. Contact force, energy, force-time-integral, and force-power-time-integral were adopted. During PVI at the posterior segment of the wide antral circumferential line, limits were set for energy (30 W), duration (30 s) and contact force (40 g). Ablations were analyzed postero-superior and -inferior around PVs. Endoscopy within 120 h identified EDEL in six patients (4.6%). In EDEL(+), obesity was less frequent (17% vs. 68%, = 0.018), creatinine was higher (1.55 ± 1.18 vs. 1.07 ± 0.42 mg/dL, = 0.016), and exclusively at the left postero-inferior site, force-time-integral and force-power-time-integral were greater (2973 ± 3267 vs. 1757 ± 1262 g·s, = 0.042 and 83,547 ± 105,940 vs. 43,556 ± 35,255 g·J, = 0.022, respectively) as compared to EDEL(-) patients. No major complications occurred. At 12 months, arrhythmia-free survival was 74%. The incidence of EDEL was low after contact force-guided RF-PVI. Implementing combined contact force-indices on the postero-inferior site of left-sided PVs may reduce EDEL.
ISSN:2077-0383
2077-0383
DOI:10.3390/jcm11236917