Lethal atrioesophageal fistula after pulmonary vein isolation using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-148

  Borchert, Bianca ^a   Lawrenz, Thorsten ^a   Hansky, Bert ^b   Stellbrink, Christoph ^a  

^a University Hospital of Bielefeld   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; High intensity focused ultrasound

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; FLECAINIDE; HEPARIN; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETHALITY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PHRENIC NERVE; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; THORAX PAIN;

ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 37549040137     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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