Safety Procedure Pulmonary Artery Denervation in Addition to Pulmonary Vein Isolation Combined With Ganglionated Plexi Ablation in Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation and Pulmonary Hypertension

In real time builds the 3D card LA using nonfluoroscopic navigation system.Left and right PVs encircle in 1 lesion line by circumferential PV isolation.Radiofrequency energy delivered at 43◦C,35 W,0.5 cm away from the PV ostia at the anterior wall,and reduced to 43◦C,30 W,1 cm away from the PV ostia at the posterior wall,with a saline irrigation speed of 17 ml/min.Each lesion of ablation continuously until the local potential amplitude decreased by \>80% or RF energy deliveries exceeded 40 seconds.The endpoint of circumferential PV isolation is PV isolation;this confirm when Lasso mapping show the disappearance of all PV potentials or the dissociation of PV potentials from left atrial activity.To accomplish ganglionated plexi ablation,LA target sites were identified as the anatomic locations where vagal reflexes were evoked by transcatheter HFS.Rectangular electrical stimuli were delivered at a frequency of 50 Hz,output amplitude 15V and pulse duration of 10 ms,for 5 sec

The procedure of AF ablation is the same like in the circumferential PV isolation + GP Ablation. 8-Fr sheath is carried through the right heart into the pulmonary artery trunk. Using ablation electrode constructed 3D map of the pulmonary artery trunk and the right and left main branches. Further HFS performed with the tip ablation electrode at the bifurcation of the pulmonary artery and in the ostium of the left and right pulmonary arteries (less than 2 mm distal to the bifurcation) 20 Hz, duration of each stimulus 10 ms. A positive response would be considered an increase in the RR interval of more than 50% of baseline within 10 seconds. In areas with a positive response to HFS, will be performed RFA Efficiency criterion: no previously described responses to HFS in the ablation area. Parameters RFA: 8-10 watts for 60 seconds duration at one point, the irrigation speed of 5 ml / min.