| Title: |
www.ipej.org 134 Case Report Catheter ablation of Atrial Incisional Tachycardia mistaken for |
| Authors: |
Atrial Flutter; Ottaviano L; Muto C; Carreras G; Canciello M; Tuccillo B |
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The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
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Funding and conflict of interest disclosure: There was no funding or conflict of interest in the manuscript for the authors. Incisional sustained tachycardias are frequent in patients who have undergone a surgical repair of interatrial defect. A 43-year-old woman with drug refractory, highly symptomatic, persistent atrial tachycardia in the last year, was referred to our unit for catheter ablation. The patient had undergone a cardiac operation for repairing interatrial secundum ostium type defect with a patch five years before. A previous radiofrequency ablation procedure had been performed for common atrial flutter. We describe a case of incisional atrial tachycardia ablation guided by the new EnSite NavX system equipped with a new electroanatomic mapping system. Key Words: incisional tachycardia; radiofrequency ablation; electroanatomic and activation mapping system. Background Incisional sustained tachycardias are frequent in patients who have undergone surgical repair of an interatrial defect 1,2. The most common electrophysiological mechanism is macro reentry around a scar 3. In most cases these arrhythmias are incessant and drug refractory. Hence a radiofrequency ablation (RF) procedure is a right therapeutic choice 4-9. We describe a case of atrial incisional tachycardia ablation guided by the new EnSite NavX system (Endocardial |
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English |
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edsbas.65872503 |
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