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Pericardial Access Through the Right Atrium in a Porcine Model
2021
Texas Heart Institute Journal
As procedures such as epicardial ventricular ablation and left atrial appendage occlusion become more commonplace, the need grows for safer techniques to access the physiologic pericardial space. Because this space contains minimal fluid for lubrication, prevailing methods of pericardial access pose considerable periprocedural risk to cardiac structures. Therefore, we devised a novel method of pericardial access in which carbon dioxide (CO2) is insufflated through a right atrial puncture under
doi:10.14503/thij-20-7244
pmid:33915571
pmcid:PMC8108720
fatcat:cttelm23o5culcyugrladkci2m