CT and surgery are the best approaches to diagnose and manage atrio-esophageal fistula resulting from ablation for atrial fibrillation, the POTTER AF study shows, but mortality is still very high.

Batra and colleagues’ retrospective study included 2,555 patients (1,340 women, 1,215 men; mean age, 53.6 years) who underwent 3,003 conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations between ...