title: [Nonpharmacological therapy of supraventricular arrhythmia].
abstract: Between 1985 and 1990, 1242 patients with supraventricular arrhythmias were followed-up at our Institution. Six hundred and twenty patients had atrial fibrillation or flutter; 7 of them (1%) underwent modulation of atrioventricular conduction. Four hundred and twenty-eight patients had ventricular preexcitation; in 23 (5%) surgical or transcatheter ablation of an accessory pathway were performed. Atrioventricular node reentrant tachycardias were diagnosed in 111 patients; 8 patients (7%) underwent antitachycardia pacemaker implantation. Surgical and catheter ablative techniques eliminate the substrate of the tachycardia; death and complete A-V block (paraseptal pathways) are at this moment rarely reported. Antitachycardia pacemakers do not offer a definitive therapy. For their safeness and effectiveness they are still indicated in patients with A-V node reentrant tachycardias, until technological development will reduce the risks of ablative techniques.
authors.affiliation: Ospedale Civile, Asti.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gaita
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giustetto
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Libero
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Civaia
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rosettani
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brusca
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000601:surgery*; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000601:surgery; D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D013611:Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Q000601:surgery; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000601:surgery; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Terapia non farmacologica delle aritmie sopraventricolari.