Intra-atrial endothelial lesion resulting from transseptal puncture for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Thromboembolic events are known complications of left atrial ablation therapy. We describe a complication which may also lead to systemic thromboembolism that has not been reported so far: the formation of a moving structure attached to the fossa ovalis after an attempted transseptal puncture in a 6...

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Main Authors: Samir M. Said, Ruediger C. Braun-Dullaeus, Alexander Schmeisser, Hans D. Esperer, Conrad Genz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Touch Medical Media 2012-06-01
Series:Heart International
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Online Access:http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hi/article/view/3952