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Direct Pressure Monitoring Accurately Predicts Pulmonary Vein Occlusion During Cryoballoon Ablation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Radiofrequency ablation in the lung complicated by positive airway pressure ventilation
Arun C Nachiappan1, Amita Sharma, Jo-Anne O Shepard
1Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Abstract:
A patient receiving bilevel positive airway pressure therapy underwent radiofrequency ablation of a pulmonary metastasis from a primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the scapula. The patient's postablation course was complicated by a bronchopleural fistula, which was exacerbated by the detrimental effects of positive airway pressure on necrotic lung tissue after the ablation. The use of positive airway pressure devices, including bilevel positive airway pressure and continuous positive airway pressure, in patients undergoing radiofrequency ablation of the lung should be considered as an added risk for developing bronchopleural fistula.
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