Saline-Cooled Versus Standard Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Infarct-Related Ventricular Tachycardias
- 10 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 103 (14), 1858-1862
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.103.14.1858
Abstract
Background—Saline cooling of the electrode during radiofrequency (RF) ablation increases lesion size in animal models. If cooled RF also increases lesion size in human infarcts, it should facilitat...Keywords
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