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Cleveland Clinic First in the World to Use Latest Ablation Technology to Destroy Large Liver Tumors

November 24, 2020 sarah Jonas Ablation

Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to use a recently FDA-approved ablation technology that can destroy large liver tumors. The minimally invasive procedure uses a single needle connected to a powerful 150-watt microwave generator that can burn a malignant liver tumor as large as 2.4 inches, which is about the size of an egg.

Eren Berber, M.D., director of Cleveland Clinic’s Surgical Liver Tumor Ablation Program, led a team that successfully used the technology in October to treat a patient who had a 2.4-inch liver tumor.

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Study Shows Ablation Procedure More Effective Than Medications for Initial Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

November 16, 2020 sarah Jonas Ablation, atrial fibrillation (AF), Cardiac, Cardiology

Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that cryoballoon ablation as the initial treatment for atrial fibrillation is more effective than current standard-of-care management using medications. The study was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Ultrasound Solves an Important Clinical Problem in Diagnosing Arrhythmia

March 25, 2020 sarah Jonas Ablation, Cardiology, Imaging, OPTICS, Ultrasound

Columbia Engineering researchers have used an ultrasound technique they pioneered a decade ago–electromechanical wave imaging (EWI)–to accurately localize atrial and ventricular cardiac arrhythmias in adult patients in a double-blinded clinical study. They evaluated the accuracy of EWI for localization of various arrhythmias in all four chambers of the heart prior to catheter ablation: the results showed that EWI correctly predicted 96% of arrhythmia locations as compared with 71% for 12-lead ECGs.

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Ohio State First in U.S. to Use New Atrial Fibrillation Device

February 26, 2020 sarah Jonas Ablation, Afib, Atrial Fibrillation, Clinical Trial, Irregular Heartbeat, Ohio State

Cardiologists at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are the first in the U.S. to test a new type of ablation technology for patients suffering from atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat.