Magnetic and robotic navigation for catheter ablation: "joystick ablation".
Catheter ablation has become the treatment of choice to cure various arrhythmias in the last decades. The newest advancement of this general concept is made on the navigation ability using remote-controlled ablation catheters. This review summarizes the concept of the two currently available systems, followed by a critical review of the published clinical reports for each system, respectively. Despite the limited amount of data, an attempt to compare the two systems is made.
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National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, Imperial College, Sydney Street, SW3 6NP London, UK. s.ernst@rbht.nhs.uk
D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000601:surgery; D018780:Body Surface Potential Mapping / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008280:Magnetics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012371:Robotics; D013611:Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Q000601:surgery