Literature DB >> 18565975

Successful catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in a patient with dextrocardia.

Takumi Yamada1, Hugh Thomas McElderry, Harish Doppalapudi, Michael Platonov, Andrew E Epstein, Vance J Plumb, George Neal Kay.   

Abstract

A 49-year-old woman with dextrocardia and situs inversus underwent catheter ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. A contrast injection into the left atrium revealed that the left atrial appendage (LAA) was adjacent to the right-sided (anatomic left) superior pulmonary vein (PV). After successful isolation of that PV, LAA potentials were recorded from several electrode pairs of a circular PV mapping catheter. LAA may cause similar difficulties during PVI of the right-sided superior PV in a dextrocardia patient, as during PVI of the left superior PV in a normal heart.

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Year:  2008        PMID: 18565975     DOI: 10.1093/europace/eun165

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Europace        ISSN: 1099-5129            Impact factor:   5.214


  6 in total

1.  Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Treatment of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation on Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis.

Authors:  G A Gromyko; S U Mihaylichenko; S A Novichkov; D A Mangutov; D L Kranin; E V Krukov
Journal:  J Atr Fibrillation       Date:  2017-06-30

2.  Pulmonary vein and cavotricuspid isthmus ablation in situs inversus totalis.

Authors:  Mina M Benjamin; Ryan Kipp; Jennifer Wright
Journal:  Clin Case Rep       Date:  2015-12-06

3.  Successful cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with situs inversus and dextrocardia.

Authors:  Yasuhiro Yoshiga; Akihiko Shimizu; Takeshi Ueyama; Makoto Ono; Tomoko Fumimoto; Hironori Ishiguchi; Masafumi Yano
Journal:  J Arrhythm       Date:  2016-04-23

4.  Three-dimensional electroanatomical mapping for non-pulmonary vein foci in a patient with complete situs inversus and dextrocardia.

Authors:  Kentaro Minami; Koji Kumagai; Yoshinao Sugai; Kohki Nakamura; Shigeto Naito; Shigeru Oshima
Journal:  Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J       Date:  2017-12-21

5.  Trans-aortic pulmonary vein isolation using magnetic navigation system for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a patient with dextrocardia, situs inversus, and inferior vena cava continuity with azygos vein.

Authors:  Katsunori Okajima; Tomoyuki Nakanishi; Hirotoshi Ichibori; Takeaki Shirai; Makoto Kadotani; Hiroki Shimizu; Yoshio Onishi; Kohei Yamashiro
Journal:  J Arrhythm       Date:  2018-07-20

6.  A case report of cryoballoon-based pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with situs inversus abdominalis and levocardia.

Authors:  Omar Anwar; Tobias Espersen; Stephan Willems; Christian Eickholt
Journal:  Eur Heart J Case Rep       Date:  2021-07-07
  6 in total

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