A fatal complication due to radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation: Atrio-esophageal fistula

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 281-283

  Sonmez, Bingur ^a   Demirsoy, Ergun ^a,b   Yagan, Naci ^a   Unal, Mehmet ^a   Arbatli, Harun ^a   Sener, Deniz ^a   Baran, Turker ^a   Ilkova, Feryal ^a  

^a MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Necip Bey Sok Melen Apt 6 ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STERNOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037662135     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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