Key result
Catheter ablation using a special 4-mm multipolar catheter successfully treated a giant right atrial diverticulum functioning as an enormous accessory pathway in a patient with WPW syndrome.
Why the study?
Can catheter ablation successfully treat a giant right atrial diverticulum functioning as an accessory pathway in a patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome?
Case Report (n=1)
Can catheter ablation successfully treat a giant right atrial diverticulum functioning as an accessory pathway in a patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome?
This is the first reported case of successful catheter ablation of a giant right atrial diverticulum functioning as an accessory pathway in a patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.
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Supports feasibility of ablation for giant right atrial diverticulum accessory pathways in WPW; leaves open generalizability beyond this case.
A young woman symptomatic for tachycardia showed right ventricular preexcitation on the surface ECG with a pattern during induced atrial fibrillation suggestive of multiple APs. Noninvasive imaging techniques performed prior to catheter ablation demonstrated the presence of a giant right atrial diverticulum confirmed by hemodynamic procedure. This structure functioned as an enormous accessory AP. We performed catheter ablation of this pathway using a special 4-mm multipolar catheter inside the diverticulum. This is the first case of such as anomaly being successfully treated with catheter ablation.
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Gaïta et al. (1999) conducted a case report in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with giant right atrial diverticulum (n=1). Catheter ablation using a 4-mm multipolar catheter was evaluated on Successful treatment of the anomaly. Catheter ablation using a special 4-mm multipolar catheter successfully treated a giant right atrial diverticulum functioning as an enormous accessory pathway in a patient with WPW syndrome.
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