Catheter ablation of atrial tachycardia after interatrial defect repair with patch apposition

B L Nguyen; C M Garante; F Tersigni; R Sergiacomi; M Petrassi; A Di Matteo; F Tufano; N Alessandri

Catheter ablation of atrial tachycardia after interatrial defect repair with patch apposition

Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2012 Feb;16(2):261-4.

Authors

B L Nguyen¹, C M Garante, F Tersigni, R Sergiacomi, M Petrassi, A Di Matteo, F Tufano, N Alessandri

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Sapienza University (Polo Pontino), Rome, Italy.

PMID: 22428479

Abstract

A 54-year-old woman with history of septal atrial mixoma surgically treated and drug-refractory supraventricular tachyarrhythmia underwent catheter ablation of macro-reentry areas near the pericardial patch placed to repair an interatrial defect. The use of ablative therapy has been successful to cure this arrhythmia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiac Surgical Procedures*
Catheter Ablation / methods*
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Electrocardiography
Female
Heart Neoplasms / complications
Heart Neoplasms / surgery
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / surgery*
Heart Septum / pathology
Heart Septum / surgery
Humans
Middle Aged
Myxoma / complications
Myxoma / surgery
Postoperative Complications / surgery*
Tachycardia, Ectopic Atrial / surgery*