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Electrocardiographic features of failed and recurrent right ventricular outflow tract catheter ablation of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias
Author(s) -
Yamada Shinya,
Chung FaPo,
Lin YennJiang,
Chang ShihLin,
Lo LiWei,
Hu YuFeng,
Tuan TaChuan,
Chao TzeFan,
Liao JoNan,
Lin ChungHsing,
Lin ChinYu,
Chang YaoTing,
Chang TingYung,
Te Abigail Louise D.,
Chen ShihAnn
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.193
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1540-8167
pISSN - 1045-3873
DOI - 10.1111/jce.13359
Subject(s) - medicine , ablation , cardiology , ventricular outflow tract , catheter ablation
Various ECG algorithms have been proposed to identify the origin of idiopathic outflow tract (OT)‐ventricular arrhythmia (VA). However, electrocardiographic features of failed and recurrent right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) ablation of idiopathic OT‐VAs have not been clearly elucidated. Methods and results A total of 264 consecutive patients (mean age: 44.0 ± 13.0 years, 96 male) undergoing RVOT ablation for OT‐VAs with a transition ≥V 3 , including 241 patients (91.6%) with initially successful procedures and 23 patients (8.4%) with failed ablation. Detailed clinical characteristics and ECG features were analyzed and compared between the two groups. VAs with failed RVOT ablation had larger peak deflection index (PDI), longer V 2 R wave duration (V 2 Rd), smaller V 2 S wave amplitude, higher R/S ratio in V 2 , higher V 3 R wave amplitude, and larger V 2 transition ratio than those with successful ablation. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that PDI, V 2 Rd, V 2 transition ratio, and pacemapping score acquired during mapping independently predicted failed ablation (P = 0.01, P = 0.01, P = 0.01, and P < 0.001, respectively). In 31 recurrent cases (12.8%) after initially successful ablation, multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that only the earliest activation time acquired during mapping predicted the recurrences after successful ablation (P = 0.001). The recurrent cases displayed different ECG features comparing with those with failed ablation. Conclusion The electrocardiographic features of failed RVOT ablation of idiopathic OT‐VAs with a transition ≥V 3 were characterized by PDI, V 2 Rd, V 2 transition ratio, and pacemapping score acquired during mapping, unlike the recurrent RVOT ablation.