Phrenic Nerve Injury During Cryoballoon-Based Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Results of the Worldwide YETI Registry

Heeger, Christian-H; Sohns, Christian; Pott, Alexander; Metzner, Andreas; Inaba, Osamu; Straube, Florian; Kuniss, Malte; Aryana, Arash; Miyazaki, Shinsuke; Cay, Serkan; Ehrlich, Joachim; El-Battrawy, Ibrahim; Martinek, Martin; Saguner, Ardan; Tscholl, Verena; Yalin, Kivanc; Lyan, Evgeny; Su, Wilber; Papiashvili, Giorgi; Botros, Maichel; Gasperetti, Alessio; Proietti, Riccardo; Wissner, Erik; Scherr, Daniel; Kamioka, Masashi; Makimoto, Hisaki; Urushida, Tsuyoshi; Aksu, Tolga; Chun, Julian; Aytemir, KUDRET; Jedrzejczyk-Patej, Ewa; Kuck, Karl-Heinz; Dahme, Tillman; Steven, Daniel; Sommer, Philipp; Tilz, Roland

doi:10.1161/circep.121.010516

Phrenic Nerve Injury During Cryoballoon-Based Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Results of the Worldwide YETI Registry

Heeger C., Sohns C., Pott A., Metzner A., Inaba O., Straube F., ...More

CIRCULATION-ARRHYTHMIA AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, vol.15, no.1, pp.23-32, 2022 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 15 Issue: 1
Publication Date: 2022
Doi Number: 10.1161/circep.121.010516
Journal Name: CIRCULATION-ARRHYTHMIA AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE
Page Numbers: pp.23-32
Keywords: atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation, cryoballoon, incidence, phrenic nerve injury, 2ND-GENERATION CRYOBALLOON, ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION, ABLATION, EXPERIENCE, FREEZE, PALSY, TIME
Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Background: Cryoballoon-based pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has emerged as an effective treatment for atrial fibrillation. The most frequent complication during cryoballoon-based PVI is phrenic nerve injury (PNI). However, data on PNI are scarce.