Ablation of atrial flutter in a patient after Fontan procedure: a case report of challenging access to the common atriumAblationAngioplastyAtrial tachycardiaCase reportHypoplastic left heart syndromeBACKGROUND. In patients with a total cavopulmonary connection in Fontan circulation, the acce...
Atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation ablation – sequential or combined? A cost-benefit and risk analysis of primary prevention pulmonary vein ablation Recent studies have tested the hypothesis that preventive pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) at time of atrial flutter ablation in patients who have not...
Atrial flutter often results from a macroreentrant circuit that uses anatomic structures within the right atrium as its borders. RF ablation at the site of an obligatory isthmus can eliminate the atrial flutter circuit. The aim of this study was to compare two approaches to atrial flutter ablation...
c) catheter ablation, a procedure that destroy the areas of the heart that are out of sync.NOTE: the anti-arrhymic drug Amiodarone is known to cause a raise in reverse T3, and is considered a very toxic drug. Also see Causes of Hypothyroidism.PART...
ABLATION: BF ATRIAL FLUTTERdoi:10.1111/j.1540-8159.1993.tb04589.xNoneJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdPacing and Clinical ElectrophysiologyFisher B, Haissaguerre M, Le Metayer P, Egloff P, Warin JF (1993) Radiofrequency catheter ablation of common atrial flutter in 42 patients. Pace 16/5: 1099...
Vein damage during the procedure happens to one in 500 patients. A small surgery is required to repair the vein when this occurs. Another surgical risk during ablation for atrial flutter is the possibility of blood filling the sac around the heart. This occurs in approximately one out of 200...
MIAMI, FL — Case volume and age may both be significant predictors of complications fromcatheter ablationofatrial flutter(AFL), suggests a new retrospective analysis of nearly 90,000 patient procedures conducted in the US[1]. Using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) on catheter abla...
Recent studies of human type 1 atrial flutter demonstrated reentry in the right atrium and an area of slow conduction in the low posteroseptal right atrium. Direct-current catheter ablation of this area has been only moderately successful in preventing recurrence. Therefore, we performed endocardial...
(the doctors have a word for this phenomena which I can’t recall). I went to the hospital for observation and after a stress test was diagnosed with right atrial fibrillation. An ablation procedure changed nothing.Another doctor I visited said he would not have performed the procedure; when...
Voltage-Guided Ablation Technique for Cavotricuspid Isthmus-Dependent Atrial Flutter. Ablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus has become first-line therapy for "isthmus-dependent" atrial flutter. The goal of ablation is to produce bidirectional cavotricuspid isthmus block. Traditionally, this has been obtai...