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Non-fluoroscopic Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

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Atrial fibrillation ablation is the last frontier of ablation using a non-fluoroscopic approach; it is however the procedure with the highest radiation exposure patients and health personnel. Combining 3-D mapping systems and nonionizing imaging modalities such as intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) allows safe and effective completion of the ablation procedure without fluoroscopy.

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  1. Arrhythmia Service, Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Mouhannad M. Sadek

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  1. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health, The University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Riccardo Proietti

  2. Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Wuhan, China

    Yan Wang

  3. Peking Union Medical College Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Beijing, China

    Yan Yao

  4. The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University , Nanning, China

    Guo Qiang Zhong

  5. Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Shu Lin Wu

  6. Université de Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

    Félix Ayala-Paredes

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Sadek, M.M. (2019). Non-fluoroscopic Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. 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_11

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