51. Block of the Mitral-pulmonary Isthmus During Ablation of a Single Left-sided Accessory Pathway Causing Different Patterns of Retrograde Atrial Activation
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José Tarcísio Medeiros de Vasconcelos, Eduardo Rodrigues Bento Costa, Cecília Monteiro Boya Barcellos, Jaime Giovany Arnez Maldonado, and Silas dos Santos Galvao Filho
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lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Radiofrequency ablation ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Accessory pathway ,law.invention ,Lesion ,Electrocardiography ,Heart Conduction System ,law ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry ,Medicine ,cardiovascular diseases ,Annulus (mycology) ,business.industry ,Depolarization ,Anatomy ,Ablation ,Ostium ,Heart Block ,lcsh:RC666-701 ,Catheter Ablation ,cardiovascular system ,Cardiology ,Mitral Valve ,Atrial Function, Left ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Left Pulmonary Vein - Abstract
The case of a 16-year-old patient with atrioventricular tachycardia caused by a single left anterolateral accessory pathway is reported. When the patient underwent radiofrequency ablation, a lesion on the mitral annulus lateral wall produced changes in the retrograde atrial activation pattern determined by that pathway; changes ranged from a delay in depolarization of the annulus posterior portions to full left atrium counterclockwise activation. Such phenomena were probably caused by a block in the isthmus between the annulus and the lower left pulmonary vein ostium. This case illustrates the importance of the mitral-pulmonary isthmus in the process of left atrium activation, an alert to changes induced by its unintentional block during accessory pathway ablation.
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- 2002
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