Intra-atrial endothelial lesion resulting from transseptal puncture for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Abstract:
Overview
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.
Keywords
Cardiology, atrial fibrillation, complications.
Article:
Article Information:
Correspondence
Samir M. Said, Otto-von- Guericke University, University Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Section of Electro – physiology, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany. Tel. +49.391.67.15206 – Fax: +49.391.67.15211. E-mail: samir.said@med.ovgu.de
Received
2011-11-13T00:00:00