MAR 3, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Incidence of silent cerebral lesions during pulsed field ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
Annals of Medicine
Small pilot RCT (n=62) found numerically higher but not statistically significant silent cerebral lesion rates with PFA versus RFCA, underpowered to detect differences.
Reported
Sample size62
SCL incidence PFA12.90% (4/31)
SCL incidence RFCA6.45% (2/31)