The role of local impedance drop in the acute lesion efficacy during pulmonary vein isolation performed with a new contact force sensing catheter—A pilot study

• Nándor Szegedi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nandorszegedi@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5670-745X

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• Zoltán Salló ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2320-3535

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• Péter Perge,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Katalin Piros,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Vivien Klaudia Nagy,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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• István Osztheimer,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Béla Merkely,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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• László Gellér

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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