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Contrast Dye ICE Cap Embolization Using the Third‐Generation Cryoballoon
Author(s) -
CONTI SERGIO,
MOLTRASIO MASSIMO,
TONDO CLAUDIO,
FASSINI GAETANO
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/pace.12960
Subject(s) - medicine , embolization , contrast (vision) , radiology , optics , physics
Cryoballoon ablation is a widely diffuse technology to perform paroxysmal atrial fibrillation ablation. The new generation cryoballoon catheters have been redesigned in order to improve the cooling capability. During cryoballoon ablation, it is not unusual to observe the formation of a contrast dye ice cap on top of the balloon itself. The automated balloon deflation before dissolution of the ice cap may increase the risk of embolization of large ice‐mixed‐contrast crystals in the systemic circulation. In the case hereby reported, we describe an uneventful embolization of this contrast dye ice cap in the systemic circulation.