Song Zuo, Xiaowen Bo, Liu He, Chao Jiang, Tianyi Dai, Jing Cui, Xu Li, Jiahui Wu, Xin Li, Songnan Li, Nian Liu, Chenxi Jiang, Rong Bai, Ribo Tang, Caihua Sang, Deyong Long, Xin Du, Jianzeng Dong, Changsheng Ma
BACKGROUND: Lambl's excrescences (LEs) are excrescences with an extremely low incidence, mainly ultrasound diagnosed. Increasingly, LEs are detected by transesophageal echocardiography before catheter ablation, which raises safety concerns on whether LEs were associated with an embolism event during or after ablation, but clinical data are still lacking. METHODS AND RESULTS: We consecutively recruited 8081 patients with atrial fibrillation who underwent radiofrequency catheter ablation in Beijing Anzhen Hospital from Jan 1, 2017 to Dec 31, 2019...
July 2022: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology: PACE