Complications (Table 3)
There were no procedure related deaths at the index procedure. There
were 3 deaths in the cohort. One patient died from an atrio-oesophageal
fistula following redo RF based procedure. The other two patients dies
from malignancy at 6 and 9 months post procedure. Vascular complications
were seen in two patients (2.2%), and there were no other reported
complications including no stroke (within 30 days), cardiac tamponade or
phrenic nerve injury.