Acute Pyloric Spasm and Gastric Hypomotility
An Extracardiac Adverse Effect of Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Dipen Shah, MD*,*,
Jean-Marc Dumonceau, MD ,
Haran Burri, MD*,
Henri Sunthorn, MD*,
Andreas Schroft, MD*,
Pascale Gentil-Baron*,
Yasuhiro Yokoyama, MD and
Atsushi Takahashi, MD
* Service de Cardiologie
Service de Gastroenterologie, Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
Cardiovascular Center, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, Yonegahamadori, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan

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Figure 1 Endoscopic ultrasonographic frame from the esophagus in Patient #2 showing a 5-mm hypoechoic lesion on anterior (left atrial) aspect of the esophagus in a position compatible with an ablation lesion. The lesion is circumscribed within periesophageal tissue.
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