Highlights the importance of visualizing the anatomical relationship between the oesophagus and left atrium during atrial fibrillation ablation to avoid potentially lethal oesophageal perforation.
Percutaneous catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation with radiofrequency (RF) energy-induced lines in the left atrium (LA) is increasingly used. With this technique, RF energy applications may occur in the close vicinity of the oesophagus and, albeit rarely, cause oesophageal perforation.1 Because this is a potentially lethal complication, integration of oesophageal reconstruction into the electro-anatomical LA map for visualization of the anatomical relationship is increasingly practised. As shown by Monnig et al .,2 the position of the oesophagus manifests high variability in relation to the LA and the pulmonary veins. Tagging of …
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Kobza et al. (2007) conducted an editorial in Atrial fibrillation. Integration of oesophageal reconstruction into electro-anatomical LA map was evaluated.
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