Key result
Radio frequency catheter ablation successfully treated drug-refractory right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia in a 36-year-old woman during her third trimester of pregnancy.
Case Report (n=1)
Demonstrates the feasibility of radiofrequency catheter ablation for drug-refractory ventricular tachycardia during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Supports ablation feasibility for refractory RVOT VT in late pregnancy; hypothesis-generating and should not yet alter practice.
BACKGROUND: Normal heart ventricular arrhythmia occurring during pregnancy has been previously described. Whilst there are established reports of catheter ablation to treat supraventricular arrhythmia during pregnancy, there are no reports of ablation to treat ventricular tachycardia. CASE: We present the case of a 36 year old women, 31 weeks into an otherwise uncomplicated pregnancy, experiencing significant, troublesome and drug refractory tachycardia emanating from the right ventricular outflow tract. CONCLUSION: We describe a successful radio frequency ablation in the third trimester of pregnancy.
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Hogarth et al. (2014) conducted a case report in Normal heart ventricular tachycardia associated with pregnancy (n=1). Radio frequency catheter ablation was evaluated on Successful treatment of ventricular tachycardia. Radio frequency catheter ablation successfully treated drug-refractory right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia in a 36-year-old woman during her third trimester of pregnancy.
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