title: Successful slow pathway ablation in a patient with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia having a proximal common pathway.
abstract: Radiofrequency catheter ablation was attempted in a patient with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT). AVNRT was easily inducible but an intermittent loss of the atrial activation was observed during AVNRT suggesting the presence of a proximal common pathway. During sinus rhythm, a relatively delayed activation that was compatible with a slow potential, was recorded anterior to the ostium of coronary sinus, and radiofrequency catheter ablation application (20 watts) to the site induced junction tachycardia. After an additional radiofrequency catheter ablation application to close the site, AVNRT became noninducible without deterioration of atrioventricular conduction through a fast pathway. This is the first case in which radiofrequency catheter ablation application to the slow potential recording site has been successful, even in AVNRT having a proximal common pathway.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chinushi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aizawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kusano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyajima
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shibata
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013611:Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*