title: [Antitachycardia pacing for atrial tachyarrhythmias].
abstract: Overdrive pacing therapies are well established to treat patients with ventricular tachycardia. The main advantage is the quick and painless success with a high efficacy. Newer observations show that atrial arrhythmias with short cycle lengths (<200ms) can be terminated by painless overdrive pacing therapies as well. In the AT500 verification study and in the Jewel AF-trial, 30-60% of all treated atrial arrhythmias could be terminated by overdrive pacing. Nevertheless, these encouraging results need to be confirmed by additional randomized clinical trials. Especially the "hybrid" therapy (overdrive pacing in combination with an antiarrhythmic drug therapy) looks promising.
authors.affiliation: Herzzentrum, Zentralklinik Bad Berka Robert Koch Allee 9 99437 Bad Berka, Germany Tel.: 036458/50 E-Mail: BVEHuegl@aol.com, DE.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Hügl
authors.forename: Bernward
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lauer