Open AccessCommon ostium of inferior pulmonary veins: An extremely rare variant described by preprocedural computerized tomography angiography
Author(s) -
Canpolat Ugur,
Yorgun Hikmet,
Hazirolan Tuncay,
Aytemir Kudret
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of arrhythmia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.463
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1883-2148
pISSN - 1880-4276
DOI - 10.1002/joa3.12519
Subject(s) - medicine , ostium , ablation , radiology , catheter ablation , computed tomography , computed tomography angiography , angiography , cardiology
The common ostium of left and right inferior PVs is an extremely rare variant which was only reported in 16 cases undergoing catheter ablation. Thus, electrophysiologists should be careful about such an exremely rare PV variants for the safety and efficacy of ablation. Pre‐procedural CTA is a valuable tool to decide on the ablation strategy in patients with such a very rare PV anomaly.