January 21, 2026- Abbott announced it has received CE Mark in Europe for the TactiFlex™ Duo Ablation Catheter, Sensor Enabled™ to treat patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib). Following the new approval, the first successful commercial cases using TactiFlex Duo in the European Union were completed this week.
Abbott’s TactiFlex Duo Catheter is the latest advancement in the company’s pulsed field ablation (PFA) technology portfolio. An effective cardiac ablation – a minimally invasive procedure to stop an irregular heart rhythm – relies on the quality of the scars (lesions) created by a catheter to stop the source of an arrhythmia. TactiFlex Duo is designed to deliver tailored therapy lesions in two ways: radiofrequency energy (uses heat to destroy tissue responsible for erratic heart signals), and pulsed field ablation energy (uses high energy electrical pulses to destroy the cells causing abnormal heart rhythms, which can reduce the risk of damaging adjacent tissue in patients with complex disease or anatomy).