loading page

Focal Arrhythmia Ablation With Multipolar Mapping: Does it Still Make Sense to Stay Off-Grid?
  • Jay Montgomery
Jay Montgomery
Vanderbilt University

Corresponding Author:[email protected]

Author Profile

Abstract

Multipolar mapping has primarily been studied in complex arrhythmia substrates or re-entrant circuits. Chieng et al. use a Case-Control design to compare multipolar mapping and point-by-point mapping with an ablation catheter for focal atrial and ventricular tachycardias, showing reduced procedure times and earlier electrograms in the multipolar mapping group but no difference in clinical outcomes. It is plausible that faster mapping and better delineation of earliest signals may translate to improved clinical outcomes if studied in a randomized trial in a larger population. Future multipolar mapping systems will guide the operator toward the focus in real-time and may even triangulate the source in three dimensions, giving an estimate of depth within the myocardium or likely focus in the opposite chamber.
18 Jun 2020Submitted to Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
19 Jun 2020Assigned to Editor
19 Jun 2020Submission Checks Completed
21 Jun 2020Editorial Decision: Accept
Sep 2020Published in Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology volume 31 issue 9 on pages 2298-2299. 10.1111/jce.14634