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Europace Advance Access originally published online on January 15, 2009
Europace 2009 11(3):389-391; doi:10.1093/europace/eun368
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

CASE REPORTS

Pulmonary vein isolation after left-sided pneumonectomy: technically challenging but feasible and instructive

Melanie Konstantinidou*, Boris Schmidt, Feifan Ouyang, Buelent Koektuerk, Karl Heinz Kuck and Kyoung-Ryul Julian Chun

Department of Cardiology, Stereotaxis Labor, Asklepios Klinik St Georg, Hamburg, Germany

We present a technically challenging case of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) after complete left-sided pneumonectomy, resulting in uncommon cardiac rotation. Wide area circumferential PVI after pneumonectomy is technically challenging but feasible in experienced centres. Correct identification of the PV ostia is crucial before ablation.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +491818854417, Fax: +491818852977, Email: melkondoc{at}hotmail.com


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