Abstract:Introduction:
Cardiac perforations (CP) are an uncommon complication of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) that has profound clinical importance. We previously published results showing that the presence of contact force recovery after a steam pop occurs can be used to predict the absence of perforation in the absence of pericardium. Now, we aimed to determine if this relationship exists with the pericardium present, validate our results from the previous study, and determine the effects pericardium has… Show more
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