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As ablation therapy of SVT is progressively being established as first-line therapy, further assessment of post-procedural complication rates is crucial for health care quality.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods and results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We aimed at determining the incidence of in-hospital mortality and bleeding complications from SVT ablations in German high-volume electrophysiological centres between 2005 and 2020. All cases were registered by the German Diagnosis Related Groups\u2014and the German Operation and Procedure Classification (OPS) system. A uniform search for SVT ablations from 2005 to 2020 with the same OPS codes defining the type of ablation\/arrhythmia as well as the presence of a vascular complication, cardiac tamponade, and\/or in-hospital death was performed. An overall of 47 610 ablations with 10 037 SVT ablations were registered from 2005 to 2020 among three high-volume centres. An overall complication rate of 0.5% (n = 38) was found [median age, 64; \u00b115 years; female n = 26 (68%)]. All-cause mortality was 0.02% (n = 2) and both patients had major prior co-morbidities precipitating a lethal outcome irrespective of the ablation procedure. Vascular complications occurred in 10 patients (0.1%), and cardiac tamponade was detected in 26 cases (0.3%).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The present case-based analysis shows an overall low incidence of in-hospital complications after SVT ablation highlighting the overall very good safety profile of SVT ablations in high-volume centres. Further prospective analysis is still warranted to guarantee continuous quality control and optimal patient care.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/europace\/euac146","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,24]],"date-time":"2022-08-24T14:53:40Z","timestamp":1661352820000},"page":"130-136","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["In-hospital mortality and major complications related to radiofrequency catheter ablations of over 10 000 supraventricular arrhythmias from 2005 to 2020: individualized case analysis of multicentric administrative data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5237-6283","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Florian","family":"Doldi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department for Cardiology II: Electrophysiology, University Hospital M\u00fcnster , Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1 Geb\u00e4ude A1, D-48149 M\u00fcnster , 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