Case report: paravalvular leak as a complication of percutaneous catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

An increasing number of reports reveal the safety and efficacy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation therapy even in patients with a history of prosthetic heart valve. This case report presents a 60 year old female patient who had a prosthetic mitral paravalvular leak as a complication of rad...

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Autores principales: Gurbuz, Orcun, Ercan, Abdulkadir, Ozkan, Hakan, Kumtepe, Gencehan, Karal, Ilker H, Ener, Serdar
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25515423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-014-0187-4
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author Gurbuz, Orcun
Ercan, Abdulkadir
Ozkan, Hakan
Kumtepe, Gencehan
Karal, Ilker H
Ener, Serdar
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description An increasing number of reports reveal the safety and efficacy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation therapy even in patients with a history of prosthetic heart valve. This case report presents a 60 year old female patient who had a prosthetic mitral paravalvular leak as a complication of radiofrequency ablation. Surgery revealed a 15 mm hole and three broken knots in the posterolateral mitral annulus. This report demonstrates radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with prosthetic mitral valve may cause a paravalvular leak likely as a result of thermal injury. Moreover, patient can be asymptomatic at first. The clinician should keep in mind such complication and the patient should be evaluated in terms of paravalvular leakage. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13019-014-0187-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-42797012014-12-31 Case report: paravalvular leak as a complication of percutaneous catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation Gurbuz, Orcun Ercan, Abdulkadir Ozkan, Hakan Kumtepe, Gencehan Karal, Ilker H Ener, Serdar J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report An increasing number of reports reveal the safety and efficacy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation therapy even in patients with a history of prosthetic heart valve. This case report presents a 60 year old female patient who had a prosthetic mitral paravalvular leak as a complication of radiofrequency ablation. Surgery revealed a 15 mm hole and three broken knots in the posterolateral mitral annulus. This report demonstrates radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with prosthetic mitral valve may cause a paravalvular leak likely as a result of thermal injury. Moreover, patient can be asymptomatic at first. The clinician should keep in mind such complication and the patient should be evaluated in terms of paravalvular leakage. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13019-014-0187-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2014-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4279701/ /pubmed/25515423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-014-0187-4 Text en © Gurbuz et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_fullStr Case report: paravalvular leak as a complication of percutaneous catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
title_full_unstemmed Case report: paravalvular leak as a complication of percutaneous catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
title_short Case report: paravalvular leak as a complication of percutaneous catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
title_sort case report: paravalvular leak as a complication of percutaneous catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25515423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-014-0187-4
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