YAGISHITA Daigo    Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine    Position   Endowed Associate Professor
Article types	Original article
Language	English
Peer review	Peer reviewed
Title	Impedance drop predicts acute electrical reconnection of the pulmonary vein-left atrium after pulmonary vein isolation using short-duration high-power exposure.
Journal	Formal name：Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing Abbreviation：J Interv Card Electrophysiol ISSN code：1383875X/15728595
Domestic / Foregin	Foregin
Publisher	Springer Nature
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.in press
Author and coauthor	YAZAKI Kyoichiro†, EJIMA Koichiro*, KANAI MIwa, KATAOKA Shohei, HIGUCHI Satoshi, YAGISHITA Daigo, SHODA Morio, HAGIWARA Nobuhisa
Publication date	2020/01
Summary	PURPOSE:To determine the efficacy and identify the relevant factors for durable lesion creation in pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) using a high-power short-duration (HPSD) strategy.METHODS:Thirty-two consecutive patients who underwent PVI using HPSD (50 W) (HP group: HP-G) were compared with 32 controls using normal power (25-40 W) (conventional group: C-G). The segments were divided into 12 segments per group; thus, there were 768 segments for analysis. Radiofrequency (RF) ablation (RFA) was mainly performed under guidance with a unipolar electrogram at the distal tip of the ablation catheter in both groups. The high-power strategy reduced radiofrequency energy (P < 0.0001), RFA time (P < 0.0001), acute pulmonary vein reconnection (PVR) segments (P = 0.02), and several three-dimensional-mapping-related indices except for minimum impedance drop (Imp-min).RESULTS:There was a significant difference only in Imp-min between the subjects with acute PVR and those without in the HP-G (P = 0.002). Multivariate analysis revealed Imp-min to be the only independent predictor of the absence of PVR after adjusting for maximum inter-lesion distance and minimum ablation index (odds ratio [OR] 1.22, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.07-1.39, P = 0.001). In the region-specific analysis, this was attenuated in posterior segments, where the HP strategy independently predicted the absence of PVR (OR 2.80 [95% CI 1.32-6.30], P = 0.007).CONCLUSION:The HPSD strategy reduced RF time, RF energy, and three-dimensional mapping-related indices but also improved the acute outcome. The HP strategy may be a sophisticated strategy under guidance with the impedance drop rather than the ablation index.
DOI	10.1007/s10840-019-00691-z
PMID	31902084