Acute Pulmonary Hemorrhage Following Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Housley, Blain Chaise; Bhandary, Sujatha; Hummel, John D.; Stein, Erica

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2017.02.032

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“…Pulmonary hemorrhage is a rare complication of AF ablation. While there are a few cases where pulmonary hemorrhage occurred immediately after radiofrequency catheter or cryoballoon, or 2 hours to 1 week after cryoballoon ablation, the present case is the first one reported where it occurred during HotBalloon ablation (according to a PubMed search).…”

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“…A radiofrequency HotBalloon catheter has been used to isolate the pulmonary vein (PV) in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation . Pulmonary hemorrhage is a rare but serious complication of atrial fibrillation ablation . We describe a case in which a patient developed pulmonary hemorrhage during an elective HotBalloon ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.…”

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Acute pulmonary hemorrhage during atrial fibrillation HotBalloon ablation

Fujii

Fujita

Kagawa

et al. 2018

Journal of Arrhythmia

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A 64‐year‐old man with an atrial septal defect was referred for HotBalloon ablation of symptomatic drug‐resistant paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Pulmonary vein (PV) isolation was achieved using a SATAKE HotBalloon ablation system, which was inserted into the left atrium through the deflectable guiding sheath via the atrial septal defect. During ablation of the right superior pulmonary vein carina, the HotBalloon dropped to the left atrium. Hemoptysis and respiratory failure was then observed, and the patient was intubated and controlled under ventilator. The computed tomography identified a pseudoaneurysm developed on the right superior PV, with massive hemorrhagic alveolar flooding.

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