PMID: 7547021Sep 1, 1995Paper

Perinodal slow potential as a local guide for transcatheter radiofrequency ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: therapeutic efficacy and electrophysiological mechanisms of success

British Heart Journal
J L LinW P Lien

Abstract

A specific local indicator in the Koch's triangle could be critical to the complication-free treatment of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia by transcatheter radiofrequency ablation. Recording of perinodal slow potential reflects a slow conduction area, and probably indicates the location of the slow pathway component of the circuit. Specific ablation of the slow pathway would carry the least risk of atrioventricular block. Guided by the mapped perinodal slow potential, atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia was successfully eliminated in all of 55 consecutive patients in one session. Fifty two patients (94.5%) had confirmed slow potential at the final success sites. Despite the good result, the underlying electrophysiological mechanisms of early success from slow-potential-guiding catheter ablation were heterogeneous: selective slow pathway eradication in 31 patients (56.4%, group A), selective slow pathway modification in 18 patients (32.7%, group B), inadvertent fast pathway damage in six patients (10.9%, group C). Group B patients had the preservation of dual atrioventricular nodal pathways, adequate atrio-Hisian delay, fast pathway facilitation, and a higher frequency of inducible, single non-conducted noda...Continue Reading

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