Results
We identified 66 patients who underwent AVN ablation, out of which 31
were female. The patient was elderly with an average age of 73 years.
Each patient had several comorbidities with a median of 5 per patient
IQR(4, 5). The general characteristics of patients are summarized in
table 1.
The indications were resistant atrial fibrillation in 74%, atrial
flutter in 18%, and other atrial tachycardias in 8% of patients.
Figure 1 shows the types of catheters used. The main catheters used were
plain and CF catheters.
All ablation procedures were successful with no immediate post-procedure
complications. Regarding lesion time, HPSD was significantly shorter
compared to plain catheters by 403.42s[-631.67, -175.17]. Table 2
shows the exact difference in lesion time between catheters used.