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Ilyes Kharrat1, Hanene Charfeddine, Mohamed Sahnoun
1Cardiology Department, University Hospital Hedi Chaker, Sfax, Tunisia. ilyeskharrat1@yahoo.fr
Abstract:
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has established itself as a first-line therapy for the curative treatment of many patients with supraventricular or atrioventricular tachycardias and has exhibited a generally low incidence of serious sequelae (N Engl J Med. 1991;324:1612; Lancet. 1991;337:1557). Coronary artery injury is a rare complication. We present a patient with an acute thrombotic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery immediately after the end of RFA who was successfully treated with emergency percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. This case illustrates an unusual coronary complication of RFA and serves as an exceptional example of survival with a good short-term prognosis after this unusual etiology of myocardial infarction.
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