Posted by Bill Kilgore on January 13, 2003 at 12:16:50:
In Reply to: Complications Risks of PVI posted by Bill Kilgore on January 08, 2003 at 16:36:11:
Thank you all for your replies. I think I will follow the consensus and have an evaluation at CCF to learn more. I must say that my doctor (Jie Cheng) in Houston says that the risk of pulmonary vein stenosis is near zero, as he is extremely careful to ablate outside the pulmonary veings. And the risk of stroke is certainly always present, but that none of his thousands of patients has ever had one, perhaps owing to the anticoagulation before, during and after the procedure. He knocks on wood when he says that none has had a stroke, because it is a known risk. All this is why I must learn more about the CCF quoted risks. Thanks to all...