Surgical repair of a left atrial-esophageal fistula after radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hartman, Alan R ^a   Glassman, Lawrence ^a   Katz, Stanley ^a   Chinitz, Larry ^b   Ross, William ^a  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FAINTNESS; FEVER; GASTROSTOMY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERVIEW; JEJUNOSTOMY; LEFT ATRIAL ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NAUSEA; ODYNOPHAGIA; OMENTUM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FISTULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84866718570     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.04.052     Document Type: Article

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