St. David's South Austin Medical Center

1 article published in JoVE

• Medicine

  
  Cooling or Warming the Esophagus to Reduce Esophageal Injury During Left Atrial Ablation in the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation Jason Zagrodzky¹, Mark M. Gallagher², Lisa W. M. Leung², Tiffany Sharkoski³, Pasquale Santangeli⁴, Cory Tschabrunn⁴, Jose M. Guerra⁵, Bieito Campos⁵, John MacGregor⁶, Jamal Hayat², Brad Clark⁷, Alex Mazur⁸, Marcel Feher⁹, Martin Arnold⁹, Mark Metzl¹⁰, Jose Nazari¹⁰, Erik Kulstad^{11 1} The goal of this protocol is to describe the use of esophageal temperature modulation to counteract esophageal thermal injury from left atrial ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.