title: Left atrial tachycardia after right atrial separation for chronic atrial fibrillation with atrial septal defects.
abstract: A right atrial separation procedure was performed for the ablation of chronic atrial fibrillation in four cases, concomitant with the repair of the atrial septal defect. After the operation, chronic atrial fibrillation disappeared in three of them and left atrial tachycardia occurred in the other one. Left atrial tachycardia is an arrhythmia encountered after a right atrial separation procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sueda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Orihashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*