Multicenter Prospective Randomized Study Comparing the Incidence of Periprocedural Cerebral Embolisms Caused by Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Between Cryoballoon and Radiofrequency Ablation (Embo-Abl Study)

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2024 Aug;17(8):e012952. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.124.012952. Epub 2024 Jul 22.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (K.M., Y.M., A.W., N.U., K.N., T.K., M.W., K.I., Y.I.-Y., S.N., T.A., K. Kusano), National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan.
² Department of Medical and Health Information Management, Open Innovation Center (K. Kanaoka, R.T.-K.), National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan.
³ Department of Radiology (Y.O., T.F.), National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan.
⁴ Department of Medicine II, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan (M.Y., H.T., M.T.).
⁵ New Development Group, Hashimoto Electronic Industry Co, Ltd, Matsusaka, Japan (H.I., A.N., T.N.).
⁶ Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine (M.K.), National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan.
⁷ Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan (N.K.).

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; cryoballoon ablation; radiofrequency ablation; thromboembolism.

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