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Treatment of Sustained Left Atrial Tachycardia by Ostial Pulmonary Vein Isolation
Author(s) -
HERWEG BENGT,
ILERCIL ARZU,
WHITAKER DAVID M.,
HAMILTON LYN,
KHAN NADIM G.,
BAROLD S. SERGE
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.1540-8159.2004.00600.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary vein , cardiology , atrial fibrillation , atrial tachycardia , tachycardia , isolation (microbiology) , p wave , catheter ablation , anesthesia , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
This report describes two patients with sustained regular left atrial tachycardias originating from multiple pulmonary veins in the absence of clinical evidence of atrial fibrillation. The tachycardias were eliminated by activation map‐guided pulmonary vein isolation. Stable sustained regular pulmonary vein tachycardias unassociated with atrial fibrillation are uncommon, and they belong to the spectrum of pulmonary vein arrhythmias that include the more common paroxysmal and unstable tachycardias engendering atrial fibrillation.