title: Clinical usefulness of slow pathway ablation in patients with both paroxysmal atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
abstract: Some patients with atrioventricular (AV) node reentrant tachycardia (AVN RT) also presented with atrial fibrillation (AF). In this study we demonstrate that slow pathway ablation is able to suppress both AVN RT and AF in subjects without structural heart abnormalities, whereas in patients with structural heart abnormalities after ablation AF frequently recurs.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, Umberto I Hospital Mestre, Venice, Venezia, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Delise
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gianfranchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Paparella
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brignole
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Menozzi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Themistoclakis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mantovan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Corò
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vaglio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ragazzo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alboni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raviele
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001283:Atrioventricular Node / Q000503:physiopathology; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013614:Tachycardia, Paroxysmal / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*