The Affera system uses one catheter to locate an arrhythmia source and to provide pulsed field ablation and traditional radiofrequency ablation, according to a Dec. 13 news release from New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, which owns Lenox Hill Hospital.
The procedure was performed by Stavros Mountantonakis, MD, director of electrophysiology at Lenox Hill, on a 66 year-old cancer survivor who was suffering from persistent AFib.
The patient, who was left with only one lung after cancer treatment, has regained the ability to use the treadmill daily since undergoing the procedure at Lenox Hill, the release said.
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