Transcranial Measurement of Cerebral Microembolic Signals during Pulmonary Vein Isolation: A Comparison of Two Ablation Techniques
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Background—Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has increasingly been used to cure atrial fibrillation, but concerns have recently been raised that subclinical brain damage may occur due to microembolization during these procedures. We compared the occurrence of bubble formation seen on intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and the microembolic signals (MESs) detected by transcranial Doppler on the use of different ablation techniques and anticoagulation strategies. Read more
