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The natural history of arrhythmias has suffered an epochal change after the advent of transcatheter ablation. It is a minimally invasive procedure that enables the elimination of additional electric circuits or foci that are responsible for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. In most cases it is carried out under local anesthesia, for which the patient, who is perfectly conscious or possibly mildly sedated, follows the operations and cooperates actively in the procedure and can at any moment communicate with the medical team. The catheters are inserted through venous and/or, more rarely, arterial vascular access points and are moved painlessly and under radioscopic guidance towards the heart. All the material used is completely sterile and for single use. The electrocatheters are positioned in certain anatomically defined areas of the heart, and the electric signals corresponding to cardiac activity are registered.
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Sciarra, L. et al. (2012). Transcatheter Ablation in Athletes. In: Fioranelli, M., Frajese, G. (eds) Sports Cardiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2775-6_17
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