Acute efficacy of a focal dual-energy contact force-sensing catheter vs. standard radiofrequency for anatomical ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation: a pilot study
Francesco Notaristefano, Nicolas Johner, Geoffroy Ditac, Allan Plant, Laurens Verhaeghe, John L Fitzgerald, Kinan Kneizeh, Karim Benali, Konstantinos Vlachos, Cinzia Monaco, Marine Arnaud, Benjamin Sacristan, Jan Charton, Lea Benabou, Marianne Tétreault-Langlois, Josselin Duchateau, Frédéric Sacher, Romain Tixier, Mélèze Hocini, Pierre Jaïs, Michel Haïssaguerre, Thomas Pambrun, Nicolas Derval · 2026
Read Acute efficacy of a focal dual-energy contact force-sensing catheter vs. standard radiofrequency for anatomical ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation: a pilot study by Francesco Notaristefano, Nicolas Johner, Geoffroy Ditac, Allan Plant, Laurens Verhaeghe, John L Fitzgerald, Kinan Kneizeh, Karim Benali, Konstantinos Vlachos, Cinzia Monaco, Marine Arnaud, Benjamin Sacristan, Jan Charton, Lea Benabou, Marianne Tétreault-Langlois, Josselin Duchateau, Frédéric Sacher, Romain Tixier, Mélèze Hocini, Pierre Jaïs, Michel Haïssaguerre, Thomas Pambrun, Nicolas Derval (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13487324.txt.
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Notaristefano and a French led team ran in 2026 a pilot test of a new heart catheter for persistent atrial fibrillation, a lasting faulty heart rhythm. The tool can switch between two burn types: heat based radiofrequency and pulsed field, a newer electric pulse method. Forty patients got vein isolation plus burn lines across the heart's upper chamber. Half had heat alone, and half had the switchable tool.
First try success for the full burn set came far more often in the mixed group than in the heat only group. By the end of each case, though, block rates were close in both arms, and total time in the lab was much the same. One patient in the pulse group had a brief spasm of a heart artery. The team notes the pulse mode shone on the back wall, but shared heat's limits at one tough line.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Francesco Notaristefano, Nicolas Johner, Geoffroy Ditac, Allan Plant, Laurens Verhaeghe, John L Fitzgerald, Kinan Kneizeh, Karim Benali, Konstantinos Vlachos, Cinzia Monaco, Marine Arnaud, Benjamin Sacristan, Jan Charton, Lea Benabou, Marianne Tétreault-Langlois, Josselin Duchateau, Frédéric Sacher, Romain Tixier, Mélèze Hocini, Pierre Jaïs, Michel Haïssaguerre, Thomas Pambrun, Nicolas Derval |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |