Comparing High-Frequency With Monophasic Electroporation Protocols in an In Vivo Beating Heart Model

Eyal Heller, Tomas Garcia-Sanchez, Yonatan Moshkovits, Raul Rabinovici, Dvora Grynberg, Amit Segev, Samuel J. Asirvatham, Antoni Ivorra, Elad Maor*

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Abstract

This study compared monophasic 100-μs pulses with high-frequency electroporation (HF-EP) bursts using an in vivo animal model. Myocardial damage was evaluated by histologic analysis. Compared with 10 monophasic pulses, 20 bursts of HF-EP at 100 and 150 kHz were associated with less damage. However, when the number of HF-EP bursts was increased to 60, myocardial damage was comparable to that of the monophasic group. HF-EP protocols were associated with attenuated collateral muscle contractions. This study shows that HF-EP is feasible and effective and that pulse frequency has a significant effect on extent of ablation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)959-964
Number of pages6
JournalJACC: Clinical Electrophysiology
Volume7
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2021

Funding

FundersFunder number
Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia2017 BP 00032
State Research Agency of the Spanish government
Mayo ClinicPID2019-110120RBI00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Tel Aviv University
Nicholas and Elizabeth Slezak Super Center for Cardiac Research and Biomedical Engineering

    Keywords

    • H-FIRE
    • electroporation
    • muscle contraction
    • pulsed field ablation

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