Transcatheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia and closure of a large secundum ASD in a Jehovah's Witness.
This report describes successful radiofrequency ablation of typical atrioventricular (AV) node reentrant tachycardiafollowed by transcatheter closure of a large secundum atrial septal defect in a patient of the Jehovah's Witness faith. Both procedures were performed successfully during the same catheterization, without complication or need for blood transfusion.
Recto
Michael R
MR
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Louisville, Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-3830, USA. mitch.recto@louisville.edu
Yeh
Thomas
T
Sobczyk
Walter L
WL
Johnsrude
Christopher L
CL
D000328:Adult; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D022062:Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D033221:Jehovah's Witnesses; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000628:therapy*; D014463:Ultrasonography