Table 4.
Periprocedural complications in 1514 catheter ablations for atrial fibrillation in Tays Heart Hospital between January 2010 and May 2018
| Complication type | Minor n |
% | Major n |
% | Total n |
% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pericardial effusion | ||||||
| Pericardial effusion, no drainage | 5 | 0.3 | 11 | 0.7 | 16 | 1.1 |
| Pericardial effusion, drainage | 0 | 0.0 | 16 | 1.1 | 16 | 1.1 |
| Pericarditis | 5 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 0.7 |
| Total | 10 | 0.6 | 32 | 2.1 | 42 | 2.9 |
| Bleeding complications | ||||||
| Punct. site haematoma. no thrombin | 6 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.3 | 11 | 0.7 |
| Punct. site haematoma. thrombin | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 0.6 | 9 | 0.6 |
| Punct. site bleeding, surg. intervention | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 0.5 | 7 | 0.5 |
| Other punct. complication | 2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.1 |
| Punct. site AV malformation | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Punct. into aorta | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.2 |
| Total | 8 | 0.5 | 25 | 1.7 | 33 | 2.2 |
| Thromboembolic complications | ||||||
| Transient ischaemic attack | 2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.1 |
| Ischaemic stroke | 1 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.3 |
| Total | 3 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.2 | 6 | 0.4 |
| Other complications | ||||||
| Phrenic nerve palsy | 3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 5 | 0.3 |
| Longer hospital stay (any reason) | 9 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 0.6 |
| Pulmonary vein stenosis | 1 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.3 |
| Shock | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Tamponade and phrenic nerve palsy | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Urinary tract infection | 4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.3 |
| Urosepsis | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Air embolism into coronary artery | 4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.3 |
| Pleuritis | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Total | 23 | 1.7 | 8 | 0.6 | 31 | 2.3 |
| TOTAL | 44 | 2.9 | 68 | 4.5 | 112 | 7.4 |