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Nonsurgical Transthoracic Epicardial Ablation for the Treatment of a Resistant Posteroseptal Accessory Pathway
Author(s) -
DE PAOLA ANGELO A.V.,
LEITE LUIZ R.,
MESAS CÉZAR E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00423.x
Subject(s) - medicine , accessory pathway , ablation , radiofrequency ablation , cardiology , endocardium , catheter ablation
A case of Wolff‐Parkinson‐White syndrome successfully treated by transcutaneous epicardial radiofrequency ablation is described in a patient with a posteroseptal accessory pathway who had failed prior attempts of conventional endocardial and coronary venous system approaches. Simultaneous endocardial and pericardial space mapping was performed and only ablation from the pericardial space was successful, suggesting an epicardial course of the accessory pathway. (PACE 2004; 27:259–261)