Successful Management of Atrio-Esophageal Fistula after Cardiac Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation

An increase in cardiac radiofrequency catheter ablation for treating refractory atrial fibrillation has resulted in an increased prevalence of complications. Among numerous complications of radiofrequency catheter ablation, atrio-esophageal fistula, although rare, is known to have fatal results. We...

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Autores principales: Shim, Hun Bo, Kim, Chilsung, Kim, Hong-Kwan, Sung, Kiick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3631790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23614102
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2013.46.2.142
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description An increase in cardiac radiofrequency catheter ablation for treating refractory atrial fibrillation has resulted in an increased prevalence of complications. Among numerous complications of radiofrequency catheter ablation, atrio-esophageal fistula, although rare, is known to have fatal results. We report a case of successful management of an atrio-esophageal fistula as a complication of cardiac radiofrequency catheter ablation.
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spelling pubmed-36317902013-04-23 Successful Management of Atrio-Esophageal Fistula after Cardiac Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation Shim, Hun Bo Kim, Chilsung Kim, Hong-Kwan Sung, Kiick Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report An increase in cardiac radiofrequency catheter ablation for treating refractory atrial fibrillation has resulted in an increased prevalence of complications. Among numerous complications of radiofrequency catheter ablation, atrio-esophageal fistula, although rare, is known to have fatal results. We report a case of successful management of an atrio-esophageal fistula as a complication of cardiac radiofrequency catheter ablation. Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2013-04 2013-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3631790/ /pubmed/23614102 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2013.46.2.142 Text en © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2013. All right reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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