Tag: catheter ablation

Częstość występowania migotania przedsionków (AF, atrial fibrillation) w populacji ogólnej waha się od 0,4 do 1%, ale znacznie wzrasta z wiekiem nawet do 80% (> 80 rż.) [1]. Migotanie z pierwotnych ognisk lub u osób z zespołem Wolffa-Parkinsona-White’a (WPW, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome) może wystąpić już we wczesnych dekadach życia...

Catheter ablation has emerged as an important therapy for the management of drug refractory symptomatic paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Although the elderly account for the majority of patients with AF, limited data exists regarding the use of catheter ablation for elderly patients with AF. As AF ablation has become more widespread, ablation techniques have improved and the complication rate has decreased...

We report a case of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy after an unintentional atrioventricular (AV) block during an ablation procedure in a 77 year-old woman. This intriguing case explores three possible reasons that could have triggered the disease: slow pathway destruction;  AV nodal complete heart block; the overall stress the patient had experienced...

We studied the electrophysiological characteristics of systolic (SP) and diastolic (DP) potentials recorded during sinus rhythm (SR) in the left interventricular septum of a 27 year-old woman presenting with verapamil-sensitive idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia (VT)...

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is the most common type of tachyarrhythmia seen in pediatric patients, and accounts for more than 90% of pediatric arrhythmias [1]. Symptoms vary according to age, duration of tachycardia and heart rate; neonates and infants can be admitted with congestive heart failure findings [1]. Although SVT in infants can be managed medically in most cases and tends to spontaneously resolve within 1 or 2 years, there is occasionally need for ablative therapy [1–3]...