Ablation of Myocardial Tissue With Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields.

BACKGROUND:Ablation of cardiac tissue is an essential tool for the treatment of arrhythmias, particularly of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and ventricular tachycardia. Current ablation technologies suffer from substantial recurrence rates, thermal side effects, and long procedure times. We de...

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Main Authors: Fei Xie, Frency Varghese, Andrei G Pakhomov, Iurii Semenov, Shu Xiao, Jonathan Philpott, Christian Zemlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4687652?pdf=render