2018 AF Symposium: The Innovative iCLAS Cyro Catheter
My first report from the 2018 International AF Symposium is about an innovative, ultra-low temperature Cryo catheter, the iCLAS catheter from Adagio Medical.
I knew it was something special by the incredibly high-powered, renowned presenters: two of the most important people in the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation―Dr. James Cox of the original Cox Maze operation and Prof. Michel Haissaguerre of the original PVI catheter ablation.
One Catheter. Unlimited Shapes.
The iCLAS catheter is a Cryo catheter that uses ultra-low temperatures and is unlike anything currently on the market. The catheter can be manipulated into many different configurations depending on the lesions which need to be made.
When I visited the Adagio booth, it was fascinating to see how easily the catheter could be designed into unlimited profiles.
Using its full length, the catheter can produce ultra low temperatures along its whole span (110mm). It has 20 electrodes which can also produce cryo-mapping of the atria.
For Flutter Ablations in the Caviotricuspid Isthmus in the right atrium, a shorter catheter is used … continue reading my report–>.