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.
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Louisville, Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-3830, USA. mitch.recto@louisville.edu
Michael R
MR
Recto
Thomas
T
Yeh
Walter L
WL
Sobczyk
Christopher L
CL
Johnsrude
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