Cardiac tamponades related to interventional electrophysiology procedures are associated with higher risk of short-term hospitalization for pericarditis but favourable long-term outcome.
Gesa von OlshausenFariborz TabriziRúna SigurjónsdóttirMichael RingbornNiklas HöglundAnders Hassel JönssonFredrik HolmqvistFrieder BraunschweigPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2023)
In this nationwide cohort of patients undergoing invasive EPs, iatrogenic cardiac tamponade was associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for pericarditis during the first months after the index procedure. In the long-term, however, cardiac tamponade revealed no significant association with mortality or other serious cardiovascular events.