Jose Merino, EHRA 2018 – Hot Topics on Complex Ablation
Jose Merino (Hospital General Universitario La Paz, Madrid) discusses recent advances in technology to improve complex ablation success rates for atrial fibrillation (AF) and/or ventricular tachycardia (VT), including new imaging techniques, and unmet needs relating to complex ablation for AF/VT, including the need for more accurate maps to target lesions and better integration of new imaging techniques with the mapping system currently in use on a daily basis. Dr Merino also highlights the current recurrence rates for AF and/or VT following complex ablation, but explains that this will improve with the advent of new techniques and new technologies in balloons and catheters. He also describes the key components of a successful complex ablation procedure.
Filmed at EHRA 2018, Barcelona.
Questions:
1. How have recent advances in technology improved complex ablation success rates for atrial fibrillation (AF) and/or ventricular tachycardia (VT)? 0:07
2. What are the unmet needs or clinical challenges relating to complex ablation for AF and/or VT? 1:10
3. What are the current recurrence rates for AF and/or VT following complex ablation? 2:15
4. Please can you describe the key components of a successful complex ablation procedure? 3:19