Arrhythmias & electrophysiology

Assessment of Intraprocedural Automated Arrhythmia Origin Localization System for Localizing Pacing Sites in 3D Space

JACC Clin ElectrophysiolPublished retrospective study

Authors' conclusion

The AAOL approach accurately identifies early ventricular activation origins in 3D and on EAM surfaces, potentially useful for identifying intramural arrhythmia origins.

Study context

Population
Patients with ventricular pacing sites mapped on patient-specific electroanatomic (EAM) surfacespatients, 48 procedures, average of 19 ± 10 pacing sites each
Participants
47 patients
Exposure
AAOL-3D vs AAOL-Surface; localization error as the distance between known and predicted site coordinates
Outcome
Localization error
Methodological details3 datasets
  • 3 datasets

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

P < 0.05

AAOL-3D localization accuracy
7.2 ± 3.1 mm

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Further findings

AAOL-3D localization error, epicardial vs endocardial pacing sites · greater localization error for epicardial

P < 0.05

Cohort-specific accuracy

Cohort-specific analysis consistently favored AAOL-3D over AAOL-Surface in terms of accuracy

AAOL-Surface accuracy across EAM resolutions

Optimal performance at the original and 75% resolution, with performance declining as resolution decreased

Original publication

Assessment of Intraprocedural Automated Arrhythmia Origin Localization System for Localizing Pacing Sites in 3D Space. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. Published 29 January 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jacep.2024.12.003

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