Initial experience with the Mesh catheter for pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Recommendations for Patient Selection, Procedural Techniques, Patient Management and Follow-up, Definitions, Endpoints, and Research Trial Design

“…From a historical standpoint, the first catheter using a circumferential multielectrode approach for sensing and simultaneous ablation with the same electrodes was the Mesh ablator. 710 However, due to technical limitations of the system and poor clinical outcome, this system is no longer available. The nMARQ catheter is a combined decapolar irrigated ablation and mapping RF system.…”

Efficacy of multi-electrode duty-cycled radiofrequency ablation in patients with paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation

“…Using the high density mesh ablation (HDMA) catheter, Mansour et al [5] showed efficacy in electrical isolation of 63% of the PVs and 40% of the patients after a mean of 12 min of ablation time for each vein. Data concerning the cryoballoon showed that successful isolation of the PVs was possible in up to 92.5% of the veins and 83% of the patients [6].…”

“…The only other single-shot device which combines diagnostic and therapeutic tools is the HDMA catheter. Mansour et al [5] presented that 12% of the veins which seemed isolated on the HDMA, were not isolated on a regular circular mapping catheter. The other study showed that PVAC has a diagnostic accuracy of 95% [8].…”

Clinical experience with routine use of a single combined mapping and ablation catheter for isolation of pulmonary veins in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

“…Th e clinical performance of the MESH for mapping before ablation, the ablation itself, and after delivery of the RF current has been demonstrated previously [19,20].…”