title: Ventricular arrhythmias originating from the aortomitral continuity: an uncommon variant of left ventricular outflow tract tachycardia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ventricular arrhythmias arising from the fibrous rings have been demonstrated, but knowledge about the aortomitral continuity (AMC) as a source of the arrhytmias is still limited. The objective is to describe the characteristics of ventricular arrhythmias originating from the AMC in patients without structural heart disease.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ten patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and/or premature ventricular contractions, who had been successfully treated by catheter ablation at the AMC beneath the aortic valve, were enrolled. Clinical data and electrocardiographic characteristics were analysed. Three of the 10 patients had previously registered episodes of supraventricular tachycardia and had undergone catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT). In four patients with anterior AMC location, early R/S wave transition was found in the precordial leads, with equal R and S amplitudes in V2, rS in V1, and R in V3. In six patients whose VT arose from the middle part of the AMC, we demonstrated a special ('rebound') transition pattern, with which equal R and S amplitudes occurred in V2, and high R waves in V1 and V3. In the anterior AMC location, the S/R ratios in leads V1 and V2 were >1 and statistically significantly higher than those located in the middle (V1: 1.59 vs. 0.23, P< 0.001; V2: 1.52 vs. 0.41, P< 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report a series of ventricular arrhythmias arising from the AMC with different R/S wave transition patterns in the precordial leads on the electrocardiogram. There may be a relationship between ventricular arrhythmias from AMC and AVNRT.
authors: Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, N-5021 Bergen, Norway. jian.chen@med.uib.no
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Chen
authors: Per Ivar
authors: PI
authors: Hoff
authors: Ole
authors: O
authors: Rossvoll
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: De Bortoli
authors: Eivind
authors: E
authors: Solheim
authors: Lizhi
authors: L
authors: Sun
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Schuster
authors: Terje
authors: T
authors: Larsen
authors: Ole-Jørgen
authors: OJ
authors: Ohm
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013611:Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000503:physiopathology; D018879:Ventricular Premature Complexes / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery