title: Symptomatic sinus tachycardia with perpetuating slow pathway: successful treatment with radiofrequency ablation.
abstract: We report a case of sinus tachycardia with perpetuating slow pathway (SP) conduction in a 42-year-old woman who developed severe symptoms as a result of atrioventricular (AV) desynchronization. The restoration of an AV synchrony, achieved with selective radiofrequency ablation of the SP, eliminated the symptomatic arrhythmia and may represent a reasonable therapeutic option despite the fact that the patient has no AV-node reentrant tachycardia. This case demonstrates the importance of AV timing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xin-Miao
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jian-Qiang
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Zhao-Feng
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhi-Fu
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Bing-Yan
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Yong-Wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Qin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012074:Remission Induction; D013616:Tachycardia, Sinus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*