Catheter ablation can successfully treat complex incessant SVT involving multiple concealed accessory pathways and triple AV nodal pathways.
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Should not yet change practice; single case leaves open durability of ablation for multiple accessory pathways.
This article describes a 54‐year‐old man with incessant supraven‐tricular tachycardia refractory to antiarrhythmic drugs. Multiple concealed accessory pathways associated with antegrade triple AV nodal pathways were documented by a series of successful catheter ablations and detailed electrophysiological studies. After the left‐wall accessory pathways were abolished with two courses of multiple low energy shocks, another two accessory pathways, one near the os of coronary sinus and the other near the site of the His bundle, were documented by programmed premature ventricular stimulation. This was followed by a third course of shocks to the os of coronary sinus for ablating posteroseptal AP and a fourth course of shock to proximal His bundle for control of SVT with a septal accessory pathway as a retrograde limb and AV nodal pathways as an antegrade limb. Without medications, the patient has remained asymptomatic even during moderate physical activity over a follow‐up period of 36 months. His ECG showed sinus rhythm with persistence of right bundle branch block.
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