Impact of intracardiac echocardiography usage on the safety of cryoballoon atrial fibrillation ablation: Subanalysis of the prospective FREEZE cluster cohort study
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology2023Vol. 34(10), pp. 2029–2039
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Janis Pongratz, Malte Kuniss, Liqun Wu, Jürgen Tebbenjohanns, Georg Nölker, Uwe Dorwarth, Karl‐Heinz Kück, Jochen Senges, Ellen Hoffmann, Florian Straube, FREEZE Cohort Study Investigators
Abstract
CBA was significantly safer and required less radiation if ICE was used, although the procedures were more complex. The risk of groin complications was not increased with ICE usage. Non-ICE usage was the only modifiable independent predictor of major complications.
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