St. Louis-based Stereotaxis Inc., which develops technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announced this week that the Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford has completed more than 1,000 cardiac ablation procedures using its Niobe remote magnetic navigation system.
Drs. Joseph Dell’Orfano and Aneesh Tolat, electrophysiologists with Arrhythmia Consultants of Connecticut, were among the early adopters of the Niobe system and each has surpassed 500 procedures on the system, making the hospital the leading site in New England to use Stereotaxis technology, the company said in a news release.
“Utilizing the Niobe ES system, we can navigate a catheter safely and accurately within any of the four chambers of the heart, with nearly no danger of perforation and more consistent contact between the catheter and heart wall, resulting in more effective ablations,” Dell’Orfano said in the release.
Tolat said the benefits of Stereotaxis technology are far greater than conventional methods used to treat arrhythmias.
St. Francis installed the Niobe system in 2007 and in early 2012 upgraded to the Niobe ES, the latest generation magnetic navigation platform. The hospital helped pioneer the practice of remote magnetic navigation for electrophysiology procedures in New England, providing feedback and expertise during early usage. Led by Tolat and Dell’Orfano, St. Francis has performed more procedures with the Niobe system than any hospital in the region, primarily for complex left atrial and supraventricular tachycardia cases, the company said.
