Procedural Characteristics of CA
The mean duration of the procedure was 179.4±51.9 min in the RFA group and 96.7±36.9 min in the CBA group (p <0.001). The mean duration of the total fluoroscopic time was 60.1±41.2 min in the RFA group and 26.9±12.8 min in the CBA group (p =0.001). Regarding the procedures, 20 out of 21 patients in the RFA group (95.2%) received cavo-tricuspid isthmus linear ablation (CTI), whereas none of the patients in the CBA group underwent a CTI (p <0.001) (Table 2). In the RFA group, four of 21 patients (19.0%) underwent RFA using a contact force catheter. Five out of 23 patients (21.7 %) received touch-up ablation in the CBA group.
The incidence of total complications did not significantly differ between the RFA and CBA groups (9.5 vs 4.3 %; p =0.496) (Table 3).