The response to adenosine tells all: What is the mechanism?

Shu Hirata; Koichi Nagashima; Yuji Wakamatsu; Ryuta Watanabe; Yasuo Okumura

doi:10.1002/joa3.13154

The response to adenosine tells all: What is the mechanism?

J Arrhythm. 2024 Oct 4;40(6):1497-1500. doi: 10.1002/joa3.13154. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Authors

Shu Hirata¹, Koichi Nagashima¹, Yuji Wakamatsu¹, Ryuta Watanabe¹, Yasuo Okumura¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine Nihon University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.

Abstract

The surface electrocardiograms during a wide QRS complex tachycardia and during the injection of 10 mg of adenosine triphosphate. What is the mechanism of this wide QRS tachycardia?

Keywords: Mahaim pathway; accessory pathway; antidromic reciprocating tachycardia; wide QRS tachycardia.