Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Postgraduate Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, European Reference Networks Guard-Heart, Brussels, Belgium.
Electrophysiology Unit, Maria Cecilia Hospital, Cotignola, Italy.
Expert Rev Med Devices. 2022 May;19(5):431-439. doi: 10.1080/17434440.2022.2096437. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
Catheter ablation has been demonstrated to be a safe and an effective treatment for drug resistant atrial fibrillation (AF); electrical isolation of pulmonary veins (PVI) is the main strategy in paroxysmal AF, since pulmonary vein triggers have a pivotal role in its pathogenesis; non-paroxysmal AF is a complex arrhythmia that results from the interplay of a substrate, namely AF-induced electrical and structural atrial remodeling, and a trigger that can be often found outside pulmonary veins, namely non-pulmonary veins triggers.
The aim of this review is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of non-pulmonary veins triggers with special focus on cryoballoon (CB) catheter ablation.
Besides PVI, CB catheter ablation of non-pulmonary veins triggers is a novel and promising strategy for non-paroxysmal AF.
导管消融已被证明是治疗耐药性心房颤动(AF)的一种安全有效的方法;肺静脉(PV)电隔离是阵发性 AF 的主要策略,因为 PV 触发在其发病机制中起着关键作用;非阵发性 AF 是一种复杂的心律失常,是由基质相互作用引起的,即 AF 诱导的电和结构心房重构,以及触发因素,通常可以在肺静脉之外找到,即非肺静脉触发因素。
本综述的目的是提供非肺静脉触发因素的最新概述,特别关注冷冻球囊(CB)导管消融。
除了 PVI 之外,CB 导管消融非肺静脉触发因素是治疗非阵发性 AF 的一种新颖且有前途的策略。