Surgical Excision of a Left Atrial Mobile Stalked Calcification Arising After Multiple Radiofrequency Ablations

Tadanori Nakata, MD; Naoyuki Miwa, MD; Yoshikazu Sato, MD; Kazuya Yamao, MD; Hitoshi Hachiya, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Jun 2023)

Surgical Excision of a Left Atrial Mobile Stalked Calcification Arising After Multiple Radiofrequency Ablations

Tadanori Nakata, MD,
Naoyuki Miwa, MD,
Yoshikazu Sato, MD,
Kazuya Yamao, MD,
Hitoshi Hachiya, MD

Affiliations

Tadanori Nakata, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr Tadanori Nakata, Department of Cardiology, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, 4-1-1 Otsuno, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki 300-0028, Japan.; Department of Cardiology, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Tsuchiura, Japan
Naoyuki Miwa, MD: Department of Cardiology, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Tsuchiura, Japan
Yoshikazu Sato, MD: Department of Cardiology, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Tsuchiura, Japan
Kazuya Yamao, MD: Department of Cardiology, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Tsuchiura, Japan
Hitoshi Hachiya, MD: Department of Cardiology, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Tsuchiura, Japan

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 16
p. 101883

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We report a rare case of a mobile ectopic calcification in the left atrium requiring surgical excision 9 years after multiple atrial fibrillation ablations. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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