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Radiofrequency ablation for cardiac arrhythmias causing postcardiac injury syndrome
G Turitto1, M G Abordo, M K Mandawat
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, 11203, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|February 19, 1998
Abstract:
We report 2 cases of exudative left pleural effusion following radiofrequency catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias complicated by cardiac perforation. We suggest that radiofrequency ablation may be a previously unsuspected cause of postcardiac injury syndrome.