Completely nonfluoroscopic catheter ablation of left atrial arrhythmias and ventricular tachycardia
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Fluoroscopy use during catheter ablation procedures increases the cumulative lifetime radiation exposure of patients and operators, potentially leading to a higher risk of cancer and radiation-related injuries. Nonfluoroscopic ablation (NFA) has been described for supraventricular tachycardia, typical atrial flutter, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), and outflow-tract ventricular tachycardia (VT). Complete transition to NFA of more complex arrhythmias, including persistent AF, left atrial (LA) flutter, and structural VT, has not been previously described. We describe the transition to completely NFA of complex arrhythmias, including LA flutter and structural VT. The techniques, challenges, limitations, and results are described. METHODS AND RESULTS: Complex ablation procedures were performed using intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and a three-dimensional mapping system without fluoroscopy or lead protection. Eighty consecutive patients underwent NFA (mean age, 60.1 ± 9.9 years, 70 with LA arrhythmias, 10 with VT). All cases were performed without the need for rescue fluoroscopy. There was an initial increase in procedural time for ablation of LA arrhythmias upon transitioning to NFA. However, after excluding the first 20 NFA cases to allow for operator learning, the transition to NFA was not associated with an increase in mean procedural time (229 ± 38 vs 225 ± 32 minutes; P = 0.002 for noninferiority). All procedures were completed successfully with no complications. CONCLUSIONS: NFA of most complex arrhythmias (persistent AF, LA flutter, and structural VT) is feasible, with a modest learning curve and no increase in procedural times.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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