Key result
Radiofrequency ablation successfully eliminated multiple accessory pathways in a 58-year-old woman, leading to the resolution of her tachycardiomyopathy and improvement in ejection fraction from 33% to 53%.
Why the study?
Does radiofrequency ablation improve tachycardiomyopathy in a patient with multiple accessory pathways?
Case Report (n=1)
No
Does radiofrequency ablation improve tachycardiomyopathy in a patient with multiple accessory pathways?
Radiofrequency ablation of multiple accessory pathways can successfully reverse tachycardiomyopathy and restore normal left ventricular function.
Case suggests ablation may reverse tachycardiomyopathy; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Tachycardiomyopathy secondary tachycardia is a subgroup of cardiomyopathy. Multiple accessory pathways in tachycardia arrhythmias are very rare and usually additional pathology is associated with it. In our case, 58 years old female patient who does not have any additional dısease, have shown multiple accessory pathways and multiple accessory pathway successfully ablated. As a result, patient\'s tachycardiomyopathy were healed.
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İslamoğlu et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Tachycardiomyopathy with multiple accessory pathways (n=1). Radiofrequency ablation was evaluated on Ablation success and resolution of tachycardiomyopathy. Radiofrequency ablation successfully eliminated multiple accessory pathways in a 58-year-old woman, leading to the resolution of her tachycardiomyopathy and improvement in ejection fraction from 33% to 53%.
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