Contact force and impedance decrease during ablation depends on catheter location and orientation: insights from pulmonary vein isolation using a contact force-sensing catheter

Target Indices for Clinical Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation

(2014) Waqas Ullah et al.   Circulation-Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Locations of High Contact Force During Left Atrial Mapping in Atrial Fibrillation Patients

(2013) Hiroshi Nakagawa et al.   Circulation-Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Electrical Reconnection After Pulmonary Vein Isolation Is Contingent on Contact Force During Initial Treatment

(2013) Petr Neuzil et al.   Circulation-Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Unipolar Signal Modification as a Guide for Lesion Creation During Radiofrequency Application in the Left Atrium

(2013) Agustín Bortone et al.   Circulation-Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

In Vivo Contact Force Analysis and Correlation With Tissue Impedance During Left Atrial Mapping and Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

(2013) Hisaki Makimoto et al.   Circulation-Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Catheter-tissue contact force for pulmonary veins isolation: a pilot multicentre study on effect on procedure and fluoroscopy time

(2013) G. Stabile et al.   EUROPACE

Predictive value of impedance changes for real-time contact force measurements during catheter ablation of atrial arrhythmias in humans

(2013) Saurabh Kumar et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Initial impedance decrease as an indicator of good catheter contact: Insights from radiofrequency ablation with force sensing catheters

(2013) Tobias Reichlin et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Ablation Effect Indicated by Impedance Fall is Correlated with Contact Force Level During Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

(2013) ALESSANDRO DE BORTOLI et al.   JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Catheter-Tissue Contact Force Determines Atrial Electrogram Characteristics Before and Lesion Efficacy After Antral Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Humans

(2013) SAURABH KUMAR et al.   JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Prospective Characterization of Catheter–Tissue Contact Force at Different Anatomic Sites During Antral Pulmonary Vein Isolation

(2012) Saurabh Kumar et al.   Circulation-Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

The relationship between contact force and clinical outcome during radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in the TOCCATA study

(2012) Vivek Y. Reddy et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Contact force sensing technology identifies sites of inadequate contact and reduces acute pulmonary vein reconnection: A prospective case control study

(2012) Shouvik Haldar et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Local unipolar and bipolar electrogram criteria for evaluating the transmurality of atrial ablation lesions at different catheter orientations relative to the endocardial surface

(2010) Kiyoshi Otomo et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Area Under the Real-Time Contact Force Curve (Force-Time Integral) Predicts Radiofrequency Lesion Size in an In Vitro Contractile Model

(2010) DIPEN C. SHAH et al.   JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Early Assessment of Biophysical Parameters Predicts Lesion Formation During RF Energy Delivery In Vitro

(2010) MICHAEL BOSNOS et al.   PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY