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nContact’s Hybrid Convergent Procedure Takes Aim At Persistent AF

Positive clinical results were presented at this year’s Boston AF Symposium on nContact Surgical Inc.’s minimally invasive Convergent Procedure, a combined epicardial and endocardial approach for treating patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, who currently have no good treatment options outside of open surgery. According to the company, about 50% of the entire AF population could potentially benefit from the Convergent Procedure, representing a potential patient market of nearly $15 billion.

nContact Inc.’s combined epicardial (outside the heart) and endocardial (inside the heart) Convergent Procedure for the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) has shown significantly better outcomes than either stand-alone endocardial ablation using fluid-irrigated catheters or antiarrhythmic medication, according to clinical trial data presented in January at the Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 19th Annual International Meeting (also known as the Boston AF Symposium), held this year for the first time in Orlando, FL.

A minimally invasive intervention that employs multidisciplinary checks and balances, the Convergent Procedure relies on the complementary expertise of the cardiac surgeon and the electrophysiologist (EP) to achieve more complete ablation of the aberrant electrical signals that cause and sustain chronic AF. During the procedure, the cardiac surgeon ablates the exterior of the heart across the atrium’s posterior wall, using sequential ablation lines that overlap each other

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