Why the study?
Pulmonary vein occlusion is a rare, severe complication of radiofrequency ablation for AF that presents with nonspecific respiratory symptoms and is often underrecognized or misdiagnosed.
Design
Case report
Authors
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Post-ablation pulmonary vein occlusion may present with nonspecific symptoms if unrecognized; case report leaves open need for prospective incidence and screening data.
Pulmonary vein occlusion is a rare but severe late complication of radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation that can present as haemoptysis.
Fori et al. (2020) studied this question.
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