
Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) is a technique to achieve pulmonary vein isolation, alternative to the traditional thermal ablation procedures. Instead of delivering or subtracting heat, PFA uses rapid pulses of a high intensity electric field, inducing cells electroporation. PFA is usually claimed not to influence the temperature in the surroundings of the ablation site. Nevertheless, in some case a non-negligible increase of the patient's luminal esophageal temperature has been observed. Here we set up a mathematical model to provide a theoretical basis to the latter observation, considering a worst case scenario.
Ablation Techniques, Hot Temperature, Biophysics, mathematical modeling, Pulsed Field Ablation; Atrial Fibrillation; Mathematical Modeling; Heat Diffusion, Electroporation, pulsed field ablation (PFA), Medical applications (general), Pulmonary Veins, atrial fibrillation (AF), esophageal thermal lesion (ETL), Catheter Ablation, Humans, Joule effect, heat diffusion
Ablation Techniques, Hot Temperature, Biophysics, mathematical modeling, Pulsed Field Ablation; Atrial Fibrillation; Mathematical Modeling; Heat Diffusion, Electroporation, pulsed field ablation (PFA), Medical applications (general), Pulmonary Veins, atrial fibrillation (AF), esophageal thermal lesion (ETL), Catheter Ablation, Humans, Joule effect, heat diffusion
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