Abstract
The aim of this study was to analyze thrombotic complications after RFA and to determine prothrombotic states in patients with thrombotic complications. We analyzed data from 400 patients (212 females) who underwent 453 RFA procedures for supraventricular tachycardias.
Transthoracic echocardiography was performed one day before and after RFA in all patients. We evaluated the clinical and laboratory (in patients with thrombotic complications after RFA) risk factors of thromboembolism.
Conclusion: Echocardiographic detection of asymptomatic thrombotic complications contributed to the higher percentage of these complications in our study. Although we can identify the risk factor (laboratory or clinical) in a majority of patients with a thromboembolic complication, occurrence of these complications is unpredictable.