This review discusses the causes, prevention, and management of various complications associated with catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.
Highlights strategies to reduce AF ablation risks; leaves open the need for prospective validation of emerging techniques.
It has been reported that curative catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) can significantly reduce AF recurrence, and improve the morbidity and mortality of the AF patients, compared with medical treatment. However, a variety of complications of catheter ablation of AF have been reported, and some of them are fatal in patients with structurally normal hearts. There remain unsolved safety issues concerning AF ablation, before the catheter ablation is established as first‐line therapy, even for selected patients in experienced centers. In this article, a variety of complications are reviewed and their prevention and treatment are discussed.
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