Treatment of incessant reciprocating atrioventricular tachycardia by a closed heart surgical technique.
The case of a 40-year-old woman having disabling symptoms of incessant atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia is reported. She underwent surgical therapy by a closed heart technique. Operative technique and the advantages of the epicardial approach in the present case are detailed.
Louagie
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Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Academic Hospital of Mont-Godinne (Catholic University of Louvain), Yvoir, Belgium.
De Roy
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Schoevaerdts
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D000328:Adult; D001283:Atrioventricular Node / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013611:Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013613:Tachycardia, Ectopic Junctional / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*