Intra-Atrial Endothelial Lesion Resulting from Transseptal Puncture for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation | Zendy

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Intra-Atrial Endothelial Lesion Resulting from Transseptal Puncture for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Author(s) -

Conrad Genz,

Hans D. Esperer,

Alexander Schmeißer,

Ruediger C. BraunDullaeus,

Samir M. Said

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

heart international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.183

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 2036-2579

pISSN - 1826-1868

DOI - 10.4081/hi.2012.e8

Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , cardiology , catheter ablation , lesion , ablation , catheter , surgery

Thromboembolic events are known complications of left atrial ablation therapy. We describe a complication which may also lead to systemic thromboembolism that has not been reported so far: the formation of a moving structure attached to the fossa ovalis after an attempted transseptal puncture in a 66-year old patient with symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

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