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Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrial Flutter That Elicits Inappropriate Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Discharge
- Source :
- Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 20:125-127
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1997.
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Abstract
- The case of a patient with recurrent VT and an ICD is reported. After appropriate device discharges, the patient experienced 40 episodes of inappropriate shock therapy due to atrial arrhythmias confirmed as type I atrial flutter. Since programmed stimulation could reliably initiate atrial flutter, catheter ablation was performed. During delivery of RF current, atrial flutter terminated and was no longer inducible. The patient had no further inappropriate device discharges during 12 months of follow-up. In patients with ICDs suffering from recurrences of atrial flutter leading to inappropriate shock therapy, RF catheter ablation is an effective and curative approach.
- Subjects :
- congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
Programmed stimulation
Radiofrequency ablation
medicine.medical_treatment
Catheter ablation
law.invention
Recurrence
law
Internal medicine
Humans
Medicine
In patient
cardiovascular diseases
Inappropriate shock
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
medicine.disease
Defibrillators, Implantable
Atrial Flutter
Radiofrequency catheter ablation
Catheter Ablation
Tachycardia, Ventricular
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Equipment Failure
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Atrial flutter
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15408159 and 01478389
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....383a69a2dd71f3403154c6114c8f52e1