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Bigeminy is a cardiac arrhythmia in which there is a single ectopic beat, or irregular heartbeat, following each regular heartbeat. This case demonstrates the diagnostic challenges that can be encountered while interpreting ECGs of patients with "apparent ventricular bigeminy'.
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Transvenous coronary ethanol ablation may be successfully applied to simultaneously treat ventricular arrhythmia superimposed within a segment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This presentation nicely describes this emerging technique for ventricular tachycardia ablation and identifies potential additional benefits of venous ethanol administration in patients with left ventricular obstructive physiology.
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INTRODUCTION: There is a lack of studies in the literature directly investigating the relationship between atrial tachycardia (AT) and left atrial (LA)/left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus, and current guidelines do not provide strong recommendations regarding the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) before AT catheter ablation. This study aims to elucidate the relationship between AT and the presence of LA/LAA thrombus and contribute to the literature on the use of TEE before AT catheter ablation. METHODS: This single-center retrospective observational study screened patients who underwent TEE between February 10, 2019, and February 10, 2023. Patients were assigned to the AT patient and control groups. TEE was conducted to exclude thrombus in the AT ablation group. The control group included patients who underwent TEE for interatrial septum evaluation and had LA imaging during TEE but did not have atrial arrhythmia. To mitigate bias between the AT patient group and the control group, they were randomized 1:1 using propensity-score matching (PSM). Following randomization, each group consisted of 49 patients. RESULTS: All analyses were conducted after PSM. There were no statistically significant differences between the AT patient and control groups in terms of baseline clinical characteristics and echocardiographic features. Additionally, no significant differences were found between the blood viscosities calculated at low and high shear rates in both groups. The study revealed a significant difference between the two groups in the presence of LA spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) (24.5% in AT group vs 0% in Control group, p = .001), but not in the presence of thrombi (8.2% in AT group vs 0% in Control group, p = .117). CONCLUSION: Compared to the control group, the presence of SEC was significantly higher in the AT patient group. The increased frequency of SEC in AT patients suggests the hypothesis that AT may contribute to LA stasis. The routine use of TEE before AT catheter ablation remains controversial, despite the presence of LA thrombus and SEC in the AT patient group. The clinical assessment of thrombus presence before the procedure must be conducted on a patient-specific basis.
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Apéndice Atrial , Ablación por Catéter , Ecocardiografía Transesofágica , Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas , Taquicardia Supraventricular , Trombosis , Humanos , Femenino , Masculino , Estudios Retrospectivos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Taquicardia Supraventricular/cirugía , Taquicardia Supraventricular/fisiopatología , Taquicardia Supraventricular/diagnóstico por imagen , Taquicardia Supraventricular/diagnóstico , Resultado del Tratamiento , Anciano , Apéndice Atrial/diagnóstico por imagen , Apéndice Atrial/fisiopatología , Apéndice Atrial/cirugía , Trombosis/diagnóstico por imagen , Adulto , Cardiopatías/diagnóstico por imagen , Cardiopatías/fisiopatología , Cardiopatías/cirugía , Frecuencia Cardíaca , Potenciales de Acción , Factores de RiesgoAsunto(s)
Fibrilación Atrial , Criocirugía , Dextrocardia , Situs Inversus , Humanos , Fibrilación Atrial/cirugía , Fibrilación Atrial/complicaciones , Dextrocardia/diagnóstico por imagen , Dextrocardia/complicaciones , Dextrocardia/cirugía , Situs Inversus/complicaciones , Situs Inversus/diagnóstico por imagen , Criocirugía/métodos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana EdadRESUMEN
Atrial tachycardia (AT) with alternating cycle lengths is sparsely reported, and, hence, the ideal mapping strategy has not been firmly established. Beyond the entrainment during tachycardia, some fragmentation characteristics might also give important clues for its possible participation in the macro-re-entrant circuit. We discuss a patient with prior atrial septal defect surgical closures who presented with dual macro-re-entrant ATs related to a fragmented area on the right atrial free wall (240 ms) and the cavotricuspid isthmus (260 ms), respectively. After ablation of the fastest AT on the lateral right atrial free wall, the cycle of the first AT changed to the second AT that was interrupted on cavotricuspid isthmus, proving the dual tachycardia mechanism. This case report addresses the utilization of electroanatomic mapping information as well as fractionated electrogram timing with respect to the surface P-wave as guides for ablation location.
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The cardiac Purkinje system is capable of very rapid burst activity suggestive of its potential role in being a driver of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) (PMVT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF). It plays a pivotal role, however, not only in the triggering of but also the perpetuation of ventricular arrhythmias. A varying degree of Purkinje-myocardial complicity has been blamed in determining not only the sustained or non-sustained nature of PMVT but also the pleomorphism of the non-sustained runs. The initial part of PMVT before cascading to the whole ventricle to establish disorganized VF can give important clues for ablation of PMVT and VF. We present a case of an electrical storm after acute myocardial infarction that was successfully ablated after identifying Purkinje potentials that triggered polymorphic, monomorphic, and pleiomorphic VTs and VF.
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Para-Hisian pacing (PHP) is among the most useful maneuvers in cardiac electrophysiology during sinus rhythm and identifies whether retrograde conduction is dependent on the atrioventricular (AV) node. In this maneuver, the retrograde activation time and pattern are compared during capture and loss of capture of the His bundle while pacing from a para-Hisian position. A common misconception about PHP is that it is useful only for septal accessory pathways (APs). However, even with left or right lateral pathways, as long as pacing from the para-Hisian region conducts to the atrium with the activation sequence being analyzed, it can be used to determine whether that activation is AV node-dependent or AP-dependent.
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Tachycardia-induced tachycardia, or so-called double tachycardia, appears to be a relatively rare condition. The underlying mechanism for stable beat-to-beat cycle length variability (alternans) in atrial tachycardia has been sparsely reported.
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The analysis of the patterns and timing of coronary sinus activation provides a rapid stratification of the most likely macro-re-entrant atrial tachycardias and points toward the likely origin of centrifugal ones by comparing the left atrial and coronary sinus activation sequence and morphology during sinus rhythm and atrial tachycardia. The analysis of both the near- and far-field electrogram morphology of atrial signals also gives important clues in determining the mechanism of the arrhythmia.
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Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is a congenital cardiac pre-excitation syndrome that is effectively treated by ablating the accessory pathway. However, accessory pathways located in the posteroseptal region can sometimes be challenging. In this paper, we present the successful ablation of the epicardial posteroseptal accessory pathway through the middle cardiac vein in a 13-year-old girl with a coronary sinus diverticulum and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, after unsuccessful ablation attempts at different locations. If the ablation procedure fails, the possibility of the posteroseptal pathway should be kept in mind, and coronary sinus angiography should be performed. In cases with a coronary sinus diverticulum where ablation is not successful, other coronary sinus structures, for example, the middle cardiac vein should be considered as potential accessory pathways.
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Fascículo Atrioventricular Accesorio , Ablación por Catéter , Seno Coronario , Divertículo , Síndrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White , Femenino , Humanos , Adolescente , Síndrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White/complicaciones , Síndrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White/cirugía , Seno Coronario/diagnóstico por imagen , Seno Coronario/cirugía , Electrocardiografía , Fascículo Atrioventricular Accesorio/cirugía , Angiografía Coronaria , Ablación por Catéter/métodos , Divertículo/complicaciones , Divertículo/diagnóstico por imagen , Divertículo/cirugíaRESUMEN
Background: We aimed to investigate the predictive role of systemic immune inflammation index (SII) on atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence following cryoballoon-based AF ablation. Materials & methods: A total of 370 consecutive patients with symptomatic AF who underwent cryoablation were enrolled. The patients were divided into two groups according to recurrence development. Results: During the follow-up period of 25.0 ± 6.7 months, recurrence was observed in 77 patients (20.8%). Receiver operating characteristic analysis demonstrated that using a cutoff level of 532, SII had a sensitivity of 71% and specificity of 68%. In the multivariate Cox model, high SII was a significant predictor of the recurrence. Conclusion: This study showed that higher SII level is an independent predictor of AF recurrence.