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MAUDE LookupElectrophysiology: AblationArctic Front Advance Pro

Arctic Front Advance Pro Adverse Events: FDA MAUDE Data

MEDTRONIC, INC. · Cardiac Ablation Catheter for Atrial Fibrillation · First cleared Dec 2010

Total Reports

1,667

Reports (30d)

7

Active Signals

1

Open Recalls

1

Monthly Report Volume
Event Type Breakdown

What the reports describe · Claripulse analysis

Most commonly reported problems

1

High Force Reading with Pericardial Effusion

micro, qdot micro, pericardial, effusion, qdot

23

reports

Problem groupings are generated by Claripulse from report narrative text. They summarize what reporters wrote, not adjudicated root cause.

Detection

Active safety signals

Disproportionate reportinghigh

Regulatory

FDA recalls for this device

Class III

Mar 4, 2019 · Open, Classified

The firm issued an updated instructions for use to reduce the potential for phrenic nerve injury.

Evidence

Related research

Feasibility and safety of left atrial posterior wall isolation with a new Cryoballoon technology in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Antonio Bisignani, et al. · Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology · 2022

Risk of atrioesophageal fistula with cryoballoon ablation of atrial fibrillation

Jonathan P. Piccini, et al. · Heart Rhythm O2 · 2020

The established and the challenger: A direct comparison of current cryoballoon technologies for pulmonary vein isolation

Fabian Moser, et al. · Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology · 2021

Use of a novel integrated dilator-needle system in cryoballoon procedures: a zero-exchange approach

Sing‐Chien Yap, et al. · Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology · 2022

Citations indexed from PubMed.

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Understanding this data

What FDA MAUDE data does and does not tell you

How these reports are filed, why raw counts mislead, and the limits to know before drawing conclusions.

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How a safety signal is detected

What the "Active Signals" count above means and the methods that separate a real signal from noise.

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Disclaimer: This system analyzes publicly available FDA MAUDE data. It does NOT provide medical advice. MAUDE data is de-identified. Do not attempt re-identification. Report counts may differ from the FDA's MAUDE search due to processing cadence and deduplication. Data is updated weekly.