Major in-hospital complications after catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias: individual case analysis of 43 031 procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

In-hospital complications of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF), atrial flutter (AFL), and ventricular tachycardia (VT) may be overestimated by analyses of administrative data.

Methods and results

We determined the incidences of in-hospital mortality, major bleeding, and stroke around AF, AFL, and VT ablations in four German tertiary centres between 2005 and 2020. All cases were coded by the G-DRG- and OPS-systems. Uniform code search terms were applied defining both the types of ablations for AF, AFL, and VT and the occurrence of major adverse events including femoral vascular complications, iatrogenic tamponade, stroke, and in-hospital death. Importantly, all complications were individually reviewed based on patient-level source records. Overall, 43 031 ab

SUBMITTER: Eckardt L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10754182 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature