Pérez, Juan J; D Avila, Andre; Aryana, Arash; Berjano, Enrique(Blackwell Publishing, 2015)
[EN] Electrical and Thermal Effects of Esophageal Temperature Probes
IntroductionLuminal esophageal temperature (LET) monitoring is commonly employed during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) to detect high ...
Irastorza, Ramiro M.; Maher, Timothy; Barkagan, Michael; Liubasuskas, Rokas; Pérez, Juan J; Berjano, Enrique; D Avila, Andre(MDPI AG, 2022-10-03)
[EN] Background: Baseline impedance, radiofrequency current, and impedance drop during radiofrequency catheter ablation are thought to predict effective lesion formation. However, quantifying the contributions of local ...
Berjano, Enrique; D Avila, Andre(Bentham Science, 2013)
[EN] The electrical impedance measured during radiofrequency cardiac ablation (RFCA) is widely used in clinical studies to predict the heating evolution and hence the success of the procedure. We hypothesized that a model ...
Aryana, Arash; Irastorza, Ramiro M.; Berjano, Enrique; Cohen, Richard J.; Kraus, Jeffrey; Haghighi-Mood, Ali; Reddy, Vivek Y.; D Avila, Andre(Blackwell Publishing, 2022-06)
[EN] Introduction: During radiofrequency ablation (RFA) using conventional RFA catheters (RFC), similar to 90% of the energy dissipates into the bloodstream/surrounding tissue. We hypothesized that a novel insulated-tip ...
Irastorza, Ramiro Miguel; D Avila, Andre; Berjano, Enrique(Blackwell Publishing, 2018)
[EN] Introduction: The use of ultra-short RF pulses could achieve greater lesion depth immediately after the application of the pulse due to thermal latency.
Methods and results: A computer model of irrigated-catheter RF ...