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Non-fluoroscopic Catheter Ablation of Accessory Pathways

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WPW ablation is one of the most rewarding procedures performed in electrophysiology. Fluoroscopy has been used to guide catheters into the heart chambers, but even in EP labs using fluoroscopy, 3D mapping systems are utilized more and more for accessory pathway (AP) ablation to tag AP location, a feature not possible to achieve using X-ray-only approach. We describe in detail how to approach AP ablation with little or no fluoroscopy in the right and left chambers of the heart.

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Rivera, S.H., Llorens, J.L.M. (2019). Non-fluoroscopic Catheter Ablation of Accessory Pathways. In: Proietti, R., Wang, Y., Yao, Y., Zhong, G., Lin Wu, S., Ayala-Paredes, F. (eds) Cardiac Electrophysiology Without Fluoroscopy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16992-3_8

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