Highlights the importance of awareness among non-electrophysiologists regarding fatal oesophago-pericardial fistula as a complication of atrial fibrillation ablation.
Editor – regarding Dutton et al 's presentation of fatal oesophago-pericardial fistula with cerebral air embolism after elective atrial fibrillation ablation,[1][1] awareness of this complication is high amongst cardiac electrophysiologists but less so among other physicians. We therefore commend
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