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. 2014 Sep 23;3(5):e001209. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001209

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© 2014 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley Blackwell.

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Figure 3. — Representative images of gastric hypomotility resulting from AF ablation. A, Abdominal x‐rays taken on the day after catheter ablation show dilatation of the stomach and massive amounts of retained food (left image: case 13; right image: case 11). The red arrows show the contour of the dilated stomach. Note that the contrast medium used in the esophagraphy during the procedure is still retained in the stomach on the next day (right image). B, Massive amounts of retained food were found by gastric endoscopy despite an overnight period of fasting even 28 months after the ablation procedure (case 5).