title: Ventricular unipolar potential in radiofrequency catheter ablation of idiopathic non-reentrant ventricular outflow tachycardia.
abstract: We conducted this study to verify the efficacy of ventricular unipolar potential (V-uni) for ablation of idiopathic non-reentrant ventricular tachycardia (idio-VT). The morphology of V-uni at the successful and unsuccessful sites was analyzed in 27 patients with idio-VT [20 with right ventricular outflow tachycardia (RVOVT) and 7 with left ventricular outflow tachycardia (LVOVT)]. The usefulness of V-uni was compared with a pacemapping method and the V-QRS interval. The incidence of QS-pattern V-uni at the successful and best unsuccessful sites were 100 versus 25% (P = 0.000005) in RVOVT and 86 versus 29% (P = 0.10) in LVOVT. The pacemapping scores at the successful and best unsuccessful sites were 11.5/12 versus 11.2/12; NS in RVOVT, and 11.2/12 versus 11.1/12; NS in LVOVT. The mean V-QRS interval at the successful and the best unsuccessful sites were 22.5 +/- 3.8 versus 21.6 +/- 3.4 msec; NS in RVOVT, 15.1 +/- 3.2 versus 12.5 +/- 3.3 msec; NS in LVOVT. The sensitivity (sen) and specificity (spe) of QS-pattern V-uni to determine the optimum target sites were 1.0 and 0.89 in RVOVT and 0.86 and 0.83 in LVOVT, respectively. In the ablation of idio-VT, QS-pattern V-uni is simply and visually identifiable, is very useful, and should be given a high priority when determining the optimum target site.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ohme Municipal General Hospital, Tokyo 198-0042, Japan.
authors.forename: Yohkoh
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Soejima
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aonuma
authors.forename: Yoshito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iesaka
authors.forename: Mitsuaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Isobe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*