Cardiac electrophysiologists at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center, Andrea Natale, MD, and Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, performed the procedure, according to a Dec. 5 news release from the health system, though the news was first announced in April.
The pulsed field ablation system delivers “short-duration, high-energy electrical pulses to the cardiac tissue to destroy cells that cause irregular heart rhythms without using excess heat or cold,” the release said.
Joseph Gallinghouse, MD, also a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, performed the first case of a second commercially approved pulsed field ablation system that utilizes a shape-changing catheter that adapts to each patient.
Editor’s note: This article was updated Dec. 11, 2024 at 2:10 p.m.
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