Fehmi Keçe

Chapter 1 General introduction and outline of the thesis P11 Chapter 2 The impact of advances in atrial fibrillation ablation devices on the incidence and prevention of complications P27 Chapter 3 Incidence and Clinical Significance of Cerebral Embolism during Atrial Fibrillation Ablation with Duty-Cycled Phased-RF versus cooled- RF: A Randomized Controlled Trial P73 Chapter 5 Micro-embolic signals and Coagulation markers in ablation with the PVAC-Gold and Thermocool catheter: results from the CE-AF trial P115 Chapter 4 Biophysical parameters associated with micro- embolic signals using the PVAC-Gold catheter: results from the CE-AF trial P107 Part 2: Freedom from Recurrences Part 1: Freedom from Complications