First Experience with a Vendor-Neutral Three-Dimensional Mapping System for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance-Guided Electrophysiological Procedures: a Case Report
European heart journal Case reports(2024)
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Fluoroscopy-guided catheter ablation has become the gold standard for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. High resolution electro-anatomical mapping systems have become fundamental to perform these procedures. Recently, interventional cardiac magnetic resonance (iCMR) has been proposed as an alternative for fluoroscopy to guide atrial flutter ablations. The clinical experience with iCMR and dedicated three-dimensional mapping systems is growing. North-Star is currently the first available vendor-neutral mapping system. We performed a real-time CMR-guided cavotricuspid (CTI) catheter ablation (CA) on a 69-year-old man using a novel mapping system (NorthStar Mapping System, Imricor Medical Systems, Minnesota, USA). Starting from the CMR imaging a pre-rendered segmentation model was loaded on NorthStar and used to guide the catheters, display voltage and activation maps, show mapping and ablation points. Northstar can also take full control of the CMR scanner (i.e. start/stop sequences for anatomical information, tissue characterization and catheter visualization) and communicate with the recorder/stimulator system (Advantage-MR EP, Imricor Medical Systems, Minnesota, USA). With comparable procedural time to standard fluoroscopy-guided CA, CTI bidirectional block was achieved, without any complication. Using the NorthStar Mapping System we managed to achieve a successful CMR-guided CTI ablation without any complication. Its further use should be explored, especially in more complex arrhythmias where a substrate-guided ablation is critical, as it could significantly improve results in terms of arrhythmia recurrence.
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