| Literature DB >> 18565975 |
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.Entities:
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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