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Use of oral gadobenate dimeglumine to visualise the oesophagus during magnetic resonance angiography in patients with atrial fibrillation prior to catheter ablation

BACKGROUND: Atrio-oesophageal fistula was first reported as a fatal complication of surgical endocardial and percutaneous endocardial radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation, with an incidence after catheter ablation between 0.03% and 0.5%. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) was usually pe...

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Autores principales: Faletti, Riccardo, Rapellino, Alessandro, Barisone, Francesca, Anselmino, Matteo, Ferraris, Federico, Fonio, Paolo, Gaita, Fiorenzo, Gandini, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4071331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24927953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-16-41