Neurological consequences of atrioesophageal fistula after radiofrequency ablation in atrial fibrillation

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 884-887

  Stöllberger, Claudia ^a,c   Pulgram, Thomas ^b   Finsterer, Josef ^c  

^a Second Medical Department   (Austria)

^b Fourth Medical Department   (Austria)

^c KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENINGITIS; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STENT; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 67650462976     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.105     Document Type: Article

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