Optimal interlesion distance in ablation index-guided pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation

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

Petr Neužil, Vivek Y. Reddy, Josef Kautzner et al. · Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology · 2013 · 438 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +14

Improving procedural and one-year outcome after contact force-guided pulmonary vein isolation: the role of interlesion distance, ablation index, and contact force variability in the ‘CLOSE’-protocol

Thomas Phlips, Philippe Taghji, Milad El Haddad et al. · EP Europace · 2018 · 359 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +13

Evaluation of a Strategy Aiming to Enclose the Pulmonary Veins With Contiguous and Optimized Radiofrequency Lesions in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Philippe Taghji, Milad El Haddad, Thomas Phlips et al. · JACC. Clinical electrophysiology · 2017 · 348 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Sciences +15

Ablation index, a novel marker of ablation lesion quality: prediction of pulmonary vein reconnection at repeat electrophysiology study and regional differences in target values

Moloy Das, Jonathan J. Loveday, Gareth Wynn et al. · EP Europace · 2016 · 345 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Electrophysiology +13

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

Dipen Shah, Hendrik Lambert, Hiroshi Nakagawa et al. · Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology · 2010 · 263 citations

Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology +16