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- Title
Mechanical Esophageal Deflection During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation.
- Authors
HERWEG, BENGT; JOHNSON, NANCY; POSTLER, GILBERT; CURTIS, ANNE B.; BAROLD, S. SERGE; ILERCIL, ARZU
- Abstract
To prevent esophageal damage during ablation of atrial fibrillation, we developed a technique to move the esophagus away from a desired ablation site too close to the esophagus. Under fluoroscopy, a transesophageal echocardiography probe was used to deflect the barium-opacified esophagus from the ablation site. This technique was successfully employed in three patients where critical sites of the posterior left atrial wall were very close to the esophagus.
- Subjects
CARDIOLOGY; COMPLICATIONS of cardiac surgery; ATRIAL fibrillation; CATHETER ablation; ESOPHAGEAL injuries; PREVENTION
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 9, p957
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00470.x