An unusual case of acute respiratory failure in a patient with pulmonary veins stenosis late after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: a case report and the review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be treated with percutaneous catheter ablation procedures into the left atrium. Pulmonary veins stenosis (PV) stenosis is a severe complication of this procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: we report a case of late hemoptysis secondary to severe PV stenosis in a man...

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Autores principales: Spadaro, Savino, Saturni, Sara, Cadorin, Delia, Colamussi, Maria V., Bertini, Matteo, Galeotti, Roberto, Cappato, Riccardo, Ravenna, Franco, Volta, Carlo A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4620024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26499985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-015-0121-0

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