Initial experience of assessing esophageal tissue injury and recovery using delayed-enhancement mri after atrial fibrillation ablation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 620-625

  Marrouche, Nassir F ^a   Badger, Troy J ^a   Adjei Poku, Yaw A ^a   Burgon, Nathan S ^a   Kalvaitis, Saul ^a   Shaaban, Akram ^a   Sommers, Daniel N ^a   Blauer, Joshua J E ^a   Fish, Eric N ^a   Akoum, Nazem ^a   Haslem, Thomas S ^a   Kholmovski, Eugene G ^a   MacLeod, Rob S ^a   Adler, Douglas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Esophageal injury; MRI; Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GADOBENIC ACID; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73949106869     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.109.871939     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Sonmez B, Demirsoy E, Yagan N, Unal M, Arbatli H, Sener D, Baran T, Ilkova F. A fatal complication due to radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation: atrio-esophageal fistula. Ann Thorac Surg. 2003;76:281-283.
2. Paponne C, Oral H, Santinelli V, Vicedeomini G, Lang C, Manguso F, Torracca L, Benussi S, Alfieri O, Hong R, Lau W, Hirata K, Shikuma N, Hall B, Morady F. Atrio-esophageal fistula as a complication of percutaneous transcatheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2004;109: 2724-2726.
3. Scanavacca MI, D'Avila A, Parga J, Sosa E. Left atrial-esophageal fistula following radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2004;15:960-962.
4. Doll N, Borger MA, Fabricius A, Stephan S, Gummert J, Mohr FW, Hauss J, Kottkamp H, Hindricks G. Esophageal perforation during left atrial radiofrequency ablation: is the risk too high? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2003;125:836-842. (Pubitemid 36457504)
5. Gillinov AM, Pettersson G, Rice TW. Esophageal injury during radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001;122:1239-1240.
6. Cummings JE, Schweikert RA, Saliba WI, Burkhardt JD, Brachmann J, Gunther J, Schibgilla V, Verma A, Dery M, Drago JL, Kilicaslan F, Natale A. Assessment of temperature, proximity, and course of the esophagus during radiofrequency ablation within the left atrium. Circulation. 2005;112: 459-464.
7. Sanchez-Quintana D, Cabrera JA, Climent V, Farre J, Mendonca MC, Ho SY. Anatomic relations between the esophagus and left atrium and relevance for ablation of atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2005;112: 1400-1405.
8. Wazni OM, Tsao HM, Chen SA, Chuang HH, Saliba W, Natale A, Klein AL. Cardiovascular imaging in the management of atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;48:2077-2084.
9. Lemola K, Sneider M, Desjardins B, Case I, Han J, Good E, Tamirisa K, Tsemo A, Chugh A, Bogun F, Pelosi F Jr, Kazerooni E, Morady F, Oral H. Computed tomographic analysis of the anatomy of the left atrium and the esophagus: implications for left atrial catheter ablation. Circulation. 2004;110:3655-3660.
10. Schmidt M, Nolker G, Marschang H, Gutleben KJ, Schibgilla V, Rittger H, Sinha AM, Ritscher G, Mayer D, Brachmann J, Marrouche NF. Incidence of oesophageal wall injury post-pulmonary vein antrum isolation for treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation. Europace. 2008; 10:205-209.
11. Peters DC, Wylie JV, Hauser TH, Kissinger KV, Botnar RM, Essebag V, Josephson ME, Manning WJ. Detection of pulmonary vein and left atrial scar after catheter ablation with three-dimensional navigator-gated delayed enhancement MR imaging: initial experience. Radiology. 2007; 243:690-695.
12. Singh SM, d'Avila A, Doshi SK, Brugge WR, Bedford RA, Mela T, Ruskin JN, Reddy VY. Esophageal injury and temperature monitoring during atrial fibrillation ablation. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2008;1:162-168.
13. Okada T, Yamada T, Murakami Y, Yoshida N, Ninomiya Y, Shimizu T, Toyama J, Yoshida Y, Ito T, Tsuboi N, Kondo T, Inden Y, Hirai M, Murohara T. Prevalence and severity of left atrial edema detected by electron beam tomography early after pulmonary vein ablation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;49:1436-1442.
14. Steel KE, Roman-Gonzalez J, O'Bryan CL. Images in cardiovascular medicine: severe left atrial edema and heart failure after atrial fibrillation ablation. Circulation. 2006;113:e659.
15. Badger TJ, Oakes RS, Daccarett M, Burgon NS, Akoum N, Fish EN, Blauer JJE, Rao SN, Adjei-Poku Y, Kholmovski EG, Vijayakumar S, Di Bella EVR, MacLeod RS, Marrouche NF. Temporal left atrial lesion formation after ablation of atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2009;6: 161-168.
16. Cummings JE, Schweikert RA, Saliba WI, Burkhardt JD, Kilikaslan F, Saad E, Natale A. Brief communication: atrial-esophageal fistulas after radiofrequency ablation. Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:572-574.