Brain Lesions After Left Atrial Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation September 25, 2017 09:46AM |
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What's less alarming is they found no clinical significance to the lesions. Although the lesions themselves have been detected in other studies, I was unable to find any study showing they had clinical significance. So at this point they appear to be an interesting observation that has no known impact on patients. Will we find out there's a dire consequence 20 years from now? Well, maybe, but catheter ablations already have a 20-year history and no dire long-term consequences have been found so far.
On an anecdotal note, over the last seven years I've undergone six ablations, five of which involved the left atrium. I'm a software engineer for a company that makes scientific instruments, so I spend most of my days solving extremely challenging intellectual problems all day long. It's the sort of job where even a slight intellectual decline would be readily apparent to both me and my employer. I'm happy to report that neither of us has noticed such a decline. :-)