Fehmi Keçe

Cerebral Embolism during Atrial Fibrillation Ablation 81 3 ACE. The patient who underwent ECV with an ACT of 327s had no cerebral lesion after ablation. There were 9 patients (4 patients in the PVAC-Gold group vs. 5 patients in the Thermocool group) with an INR of 1.8-1.9 before ablation. However none of these patients experienced cerebral embolism. Figure 1. Incidence of Asymptomatic Cerebral embolism. Asymptomatic cerebral embolism in the PVAC-Gold group (n=8/35) and the Thermocool Group (2/35). TC: Thermocool. Figure 2. Diffusion weighted images of a patient with several cerebral lesions after PVAC-Gold ablation. A: Lesion located left cerebellum, B: left occipital and right temporal and C: left midbrain (region of the nucleus of the oculomotor nerve)