Hemoptysis: déjà vu for cryoballoon use for pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation ablation.

Affi liations: From the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Qiao), Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; the American College of Chest Physicians (Dr Rosen); First Affi liated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College (Dr Chen), Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases; Beijing Hospital (Dr Wu), Ministry of Health; the Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Med icine (Dr Marciniuk), University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital; and the Chinese Thoracic Society (Dr Wang), Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Centre for Respiratory Medicine. Financial/nonfi nancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST that no potential confl icts of interest exist with any companies/organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article . Correspondence to: Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP, 2595 Patriot Blvd, Glenview, IL 60026; e-mail: mrosen@chestnet.org © 2014 American College of Chest Physicians. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the American College of Chest Physicians. See online for more details. DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-0593

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