Unusual complications of percutaneous epicardial access and epicardial mapping and ablation of cardiac arrhythmias

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 882-888

  Koruth, Jacob S ^a   Aryana, Arash ^b   Dukkipati, Srinivas R ^a   Pak, Hui Nam ^c   Kim, Young Hoon ^c   Sosa, Eduardo A ^d   Scanavacca, Mauricio ^d   Mahapatra, Srijoy ^e   Ailawadi, Gorav ^e   Reddy, Vivek Y ^a   D'Avila, Andre ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Epicardial ablation; Epicardial access; Epicardium; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

NITRATE;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY SINUS; DEFIBRILLATOR; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER HEMATOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEART VENTRICLE ABDOMINAL FISTULA; RIGHT HEART VENTRICLE PSEUDOANEURYSM; THORAX SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART INJURY; HEMATOMA; INJURY; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART INJURIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84863337818     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.965731     Document Type: Article

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