Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

We present a case of a patient who presented to the emergency department with vague abdominal pain one month after undergoing a left atrial ablation procedure for atrial fibrillation. While in the emergency department, the patient started to have episodes of hematemesis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (...

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Autores principales: Abu-Shaban, Kamil, Liu, Xiaochen, Siders, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8525678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692312
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18101
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Liu, Xiaochen
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description We present a case of a patient who presented to the emergency department with vague abdominal pain one month after undergoing a left atrial ablation procedure for atrial fibrillation. While in the emergency department, the patient started to have episodes of hematemesis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed and the patient become hypotensive and unresponsive after. Imaging confirmed atrioesophageal fistula and widespread cerebral air emboli and diffuse ischemia. Air emboli were likely introduced through the fistula during the EGD.
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spelling pubmed-85256782021-10-22 Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Abu-Shaban, Kamil Liu, Xiaochen Siders, Bruce Cureus Cardiology We present a case of a patient who presented to the emergency department with vague abdominal pain one month after undergoing a left atrial ablation procedure for atrial fibrillation. While in the emergency department, the patient started to have episodes of hematemesis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed and the patient become hypotensive and unresponsive after. Imaging confirmed atrioesophageal fistula and widespread cerebral air emboli and diffuse ischemia. Air emboli were likely introduced through the fistula during the EGD. Cureus 2021-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8525678/ /pubmed/34692312 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18101 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abu-Shaban et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_full Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_fullStr Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_full_unstemmed Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_short Diffuse Cerebral Air Emboli After an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy One Month Post Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
title_sort diffuse cerebral air emboli after an esophagogastroduodenoscopy one month post left atrial ablation for atrial fibrillation
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8525678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34692312
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18101
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