title: Ventricular tachycardias arising from the aortic sinus of valsalva: an under-recognized variant of left outflow tract ventricular tachycardia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a normal heart left bundle branch block, inferior axis ventricular tachycardia (VT), that could not be ablated from the right or left ventricular outflow tracts.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Whether these VTs are epicardial and can be identified by a specific electrocardiographic pattern is unclear.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twelve patients with normal heart left bundle branch block, inferior axis VT and previously failed ablation were included in this study. Together with mapping in the right and left ventricular outflow tracts, we obtained percutaneous epicardial mapping in the first five patients and performed aortic sinus of Valsalva mapping in all patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No adequate pace mapping was observed in the right and left ventricular outflow tracts. Earliest ventricular activation was noted in the epicardium and the aortic cusps. All patients were successfully ablated from the aortic sinuses of Valsalva (95% CI 0% to 18%). The electrocardiographic pattern associated with this VT was left bundle branch block, inferior axis and early precordial transition with Rs or R in V2 or V3. Ventricular tachycardia from the left sinus had rS pattern in lead I, and VT from the noncoronary sinus had a notched R wave in lead I. None of the patients had complications and all remained arrhythmia-free at a mean follow-up of 8 +/- 2.6 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Normal heart VT with left bundle branch block, inferior axis and early precordial transition can be ablated in the majority of patients from either the left or the noncoronary aortic sinus of Valsalva.
authors: Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Kanagaratnam
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Tomassoni
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Schweikert
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Pavia
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Bash
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Beheiry
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Neibauer
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Saliba
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Chung
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Tchou
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Natale
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018780:Body Surface Potential Mapping; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery