Intraprocedural risks of ablation for atrial fibrillation

Complication	Incidence	Diagnostic testing
Air embolism	<1%	Nothing or cardiac catheterization
Asymptomatic cerebral emboli	2 to 15%	Brain MRI
Cardiac tamponade	0.2 to 5%	Echocardiography
Coronary stenosis/occlusion	<0.1%	Cardiac catheterization
Death	<0.1 to 0.4%	N/A
Mitral valve entrapment	<0.1%	Echocardiography
Permanent phrenic nerve paralysis	0 to 0.4%	Chest radiograph, sniff test
Radiation injury	<0.1%	None
Stroke or TIA	0 to 2%	Head CT/MRI, cerebral angiography
Vascular complications	0.2 to 1.5%	Vascular ultrasound, CT scan

MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; TIA: transient ischemic attack; CT: computed tomography.

Adapted from: Calkins H, Hindricks G, Cappato R, et al. 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Executive summary. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2017; 50:1. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10840-017-0277-z. Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.

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Intraprocedural risks of ablation for atrial fibrillation