Ablation of focal atrial arrhythmia in patients with congenital heart defects after surgery: role of circumscribed areas with heterogeneous conduction

Heart Rhythm : the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
Natasja M S de GrootMartin J Schalij

Abstract

In patients late after surgical repair of congenital heart disease (CHD), areas with abnormal electrophysiologic properties may serve as slow conducting pathways within a macroreentrant circuit or may be the source of focal atrial tachycardia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of abnormal areas during focal atrial tachycardia prior to ablation. Electroanatomic activation mapping of 62 atrial tachycardias was performed in 43 consecutive patients (37 +/- 12 years) after surgical repair of CHD. The mechanism of atrial tachycardia was scar related intra-atrial reentry (n = 27), cavotricuspid-related atrial flutter (n = 21), atrial fibrillation (n = 2), or focal atrial tachycardia (n = 10). During intra-atrial reentry, channels of slow conduction could be identified in all patients. Subsequent ablation was directed toward connecting two nonconductive borders. The site of origin during focal atrial tachycardia showed fractionated potentials and/or continuous electrical activity. Ablation directed at isolating the source area resulted in termination of focal atrial tachycardia in all cases. In two patients, ablation of an area showing continuous electrical activity giving rise to fibrillatory conduction resulted in te...Continue Reading

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