In Silico Modelling to Assess the Electrical and Thermal Disturbance Provoked by a Metal Intracoronary Stent during Epicardial Pulsed Electric Field Ablation

Electric Field Models
A González-Suárez, J Perez, B O’Brien et al
J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 2022

The effect of a metallic coronary stent within the applied electric field was modelled in this study. Electrical field distortions and thermal effects were assessed. The presence of a stent causes minor electric field disruption, leading to increased field concentrations at the stent and a resulting localized temperature increase. This increase was insignificant and not at a level that would cause tissue damage or necrosis.