Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation

A 58-year-old man admitted for a cryoballoon ablation due to a history of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation experienced pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade intraoperatively. A longitudinal left superior pulmonary vein perforation was confirmed by emergency thoracotomy and repaired. H...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Gul, Enes Elvin, Ghazni, Muhammad Salman, Sandougji, Hasan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MediaSphere Medical 2023
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10697110/
http://dx.doi.org/10.19102/icrm.2023.14112
_version_ 1785154707129368576
author Gul, Enes Elvin
Ghazni, Muhammad Salman
Sandougji, Hasan
author_facet Gul, Enes Elvin
Ghazni, Muhammad Salman
Sandougji, Hasan
author_sort Gul, Enes Elvin
collection PubMed
description A 58-year-old man admitted for a cryoballoon ablation due to a history of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation experienced pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade intraoperatively. A longitudinal left superior pulmonary vein perforation was confirmed by emergency thoracotomy and repaired. He developed atrial fibrillation 2 days postoperatively, which was terminated with colchicine and oral steroids the following day.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-10697110
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher MediaSphere Medical
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-106971102023-12-06 Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation Gul, Enes Elvin Ghazni, Muhammad Salman Sandougji, Hasan J Innov Card Rhythm Manag Case Report A 58-year-old man admitted for a cryoballoon ablation due to a history of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation experienced pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade intraoperatively. A longitudinal left superior pulmonary vein perforation was confirmed by emergency thoracotomy and repaired. He developed atrial fibrillation 2 days postoperatively, which was terminated with colchicine and oral steroids the following day. MediaSphere Medical 2023-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10697110/ http://dx.doi.org/10.19102/icrm.2023.14112 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International, as described at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Gul, Enes Elvin
Ghazni, Muhammad Salman
Sandougji, Hasan
Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation
title Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation
title_full Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation
title_fullStr Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation
title_full_unstemmed Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation
title_short Perforation of the Pulmonary Vein During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Rare Complication of Cryoballoon Ablation
title_sort perforation of the pulmonary vein during ablation of atrial fibrillation: a rare complication of cryoballoon ablation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10697110/
http://dx.doi.org/10.19102/icrm.2023.14112
work_keys_str_mv AT guleneselvin perforationofthepulmonaryveinduringablationofatrialfibrillationararecomplicationofcryoballoonablation
AT ghaznimuhammadsalman perforationofthepulmonaryveinduringablationofatrialfibrillationararecomplicationofcryoballoonablation
AT sandougjihasan perforationofthepulmonaryveinduringablationofatrialfibrillationararecomplicationofcryoballoonablation

Ejemplares similares