Entrapment of ablation catheter in right pulmonary veins requiring surgery to remove
Eaves, Scott, Sharma, Rajiv, Cruice, Stephanie, Bhattarai, Keshav, Brett, Nicholas, and Lipton, Jonathan A. (2024) Entrapment of ablation catheter in right pulmonary veins requiring surgery to remove. Heartrhythm Case Reports, 10 (9). pp. 644-646.
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Abstract
Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is a safe and effective procedure for treating atrial fibrillation, but it carries a small risk of complications. The most common complications are related to vascular access; but infrequent, more severe complica- tions, including tamponade, stroke, catheter entrapment, and mechanical disruption of pulmonary vein branches, can occur. Catheter entrapment during PVI requiring surgical removal has been reported in rare cases; however, this has predominantly involved circular mapping catheters becoming entrapped in the mitral subvalvular apparatus. Here we report a rare case of ablation catheter entrapment within the right inferior pulmonary vein (RIPV) that required surgical removal.
| Item ID: | 87212 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Case Study) |
| ISSN: | 2214-0271 |
| Keywords: | Ablation, Atrial fibrillation, Catheter entrapment, Pulmonary vein, Pulmonary vein isolation, Surgical removal |
| Copyright Information: | © 2024 Heart Rhythm Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2026 02:56 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology > 320101 Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200105 Treatment of human diseases and conditions @ 100% |
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