Nation's first cardiac ablation with mapping system recently cleared by the FDA performed at Penn Medicine

After eight years of failed treatment for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), a New Jersey patient became the first patient in the United States to undergo cardiac ablation – a procedure in which an electrophysiologist will scar or destroy tissue in the heart that’s allowing incorrect electrical signals to cause an abnormal heart rhythm – using an intraoperative imaging and mapping system recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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