Incessant interfascicular reentrant ventricular tachycardia as a result of catheter ablation of the right bundle branch: case report and review of the literature.
A 72-year-old woman developed incessant interfascicular (IF) ventricular tachycardia immediately after successful right bundle branch (RBB) catheter ablation for the treatment of sustained bundle branch reentrant tachycardia. Catheter ablation of the left bundle branch and the left anterior fascicle was successful in eliminating the tachycardia (in 2 different sessions). This report discusses the direct link between the creation of an RBB block and the development of IF tachycardia, in our case, and in prior cases of IF reentry reported in the literature.
Blanck
Zalmen
Z
Electrophysiology Laboratories of Aurora St. Luke's and Aurora Sinai Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. bdanek@hrtcare.com
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Jasbir
J
Akhtar
Masood
M
D000368:Aged; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013611:Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D016896:Treatment Outcome