Atrial Reentrant Tachycardia After Heart Transplantation
Author(s) -
Ellen Hoffmann,
Christopher Reithmann,
P. Nimmermann,
T. Remp,
Gerhard Steinbeck
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.99.2.326
Subject(s) - medicine , coronary sinus , supraventricular tachycardia , tachycardia , transplantation , atrium (architecture) , atrial flutter , cardiology , heart transplantation , surgery , atrial fibrillation
A68-year-old man presented with an incessant supraventricular tachycardia 3 months after heart transplantation. A dual-chamber pacemaker had been implanted immediately after surgery for bradyarrhythmias. Electrophysiological study was performed with a multipolar halo catheter (20 electrode pairs) in the right atrium and bi- or quadripolar catheters in a high lateral, His, and coronary sinus ostium position of the right atrium (Figure⇓, top right). An atrial reentrant …
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