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Impact of cryoballoon contact angle and acute myocardial injury on pulmonary vein reconnection

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At present, it remains unclear whether the effect on cryoinjury can be strongly exerted by contact of the balloon with the pulmonary vein (PV) ostium. The present study included 204 paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) patients who underwent an initial pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) using a cryoballoon from the Osaka Rosai Atrial Fibrillation ablation (ORAF) registry. The total balloon contact angle was measured from the equator line (sum of the angles of the upper side and bottom side in all PVs) under fluoroscopic imaging. The patients were stratified into three tertile groups according to the total balloon contact angle. We evaluated the relationship between the total balloon contact angle and clinical outcomes, including the value of acute myocardial injury marker (high-sensitive cardiac troponin I [hs-TnI]), arrhythmia recurrence, and PV reconnections in the repeated ablation. The total balloon contact angle was significantly associated with the hs-TnI value among the tertile groups (p < 0.001) and a multiple regression analysis showed that the total balloon contact angle significantly correlated with the hs-TnI value (standardized beta-coefficient = 0.572, p < 0.001). The balloon contact angle in PVs with PV reconnections was significantly lower than in those without (p = 0.044), while no significant differences in the recurrence of atrial fibrillation among the tertile groups were observed in the enrolled patients. The total balloon contact angle was significantly associated with the acute myocardial injury marker, hs-TnI. The total balloon contact angle was significantly associated with PV reconnections after cryoballoon ablation in patients who underwent a repeat ablation.

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The authors thank clinical engineers in Osaka Rosai Hospital for their technical assistance during the electrophysiological study and Mr. John Martin for his linguistic assistance with this manuscript.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, 3-1179 Nagasonecho, kita-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 591-8025, Japan

    Masamichi Yano, Yasuyuki Egami, Shodai Kawanami, Hiroki Sugae, Kohei Ukita, Akito Kawamura, Hitoshi Nakamura, Yutaka Matsuhiro, Koji Yasumoto, Masaki Tsuda, Naotaka Okamoto, Yasuharu Matsunaga-Lee, Masami Nishino & Jun Tanouchi

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Yano, M., Egami, Y., Kawanami, S. et al. Impact of cryoballoon contact angle and acute myocardial injury on pulmonary vein reconnection. Heart Vessels 37, 1882–1891 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-022-02088-x

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