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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;122:1239-1240
© 2001 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery


Brief Communications

Esophageal injury during radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation

A. Marc Gillinov, MD, Gosta Pettersson, MD, Thomas W. Rice, MD Cleveland, Ohio

From the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.

Received for publication May 31, 2001. Accepted for publication June 12, 2001. Address for reprints: A. Marc Gillinov, MD, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery/F24, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195 (E-mail: gillinom@ccf.org).

Recent reports document successful operative treatment of atrial fibrillation by radiofrequency ablation of the left atrium.Go 1 We report the case of a patient with rheumatic mitral valve disease and chronic atrial fibrillation who had a fatal esophageal injury during radiofrequency ablation of the left atrium.

Clinical summary

A 60-year-old woman with rheumatic mitral valve disease and chronic atrial fibrillation of several years' duration came for surgical evaluation. The patient was small and cachectic, with a weight of 29 kg, a height of 146 cm, and a body surface area of 1.07 m2. Transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated normal left and right ventricular function, biatrial enlargement (maximum left atrial diameter 7.0 cm), 2+ mitral regurgitation, and severe mitral stenosis.

She was taken to the operating room on April 30, 2001. A transesophageal echocardiogram was performed, and then the echo probe was removed. A partial upper sternotomy was constructed and the mitral valve exposed with a combined superior and transseptal approach to the left atrium. The mitral valve was replaced with a 25 mm Carpentier-Edwards Perimount valve (Edwards Lifesciences, LLC, Newport Beach, Calif). The Cobra RF System (Boston Scientific, Boston, . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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