Five patients with medically refractory incessant supraventricular tachycardia due to a posterior septal, slowly conducting accessory connection underwent transcatheter closed chest ablative treatment. The tachycardia characteristics were consistent with the permanent form of junctional reciprocating tachycardia. In each patient the ablative attempts resulted in independent interruption of eith...

the detailed anatomy and histology of the atrioventricular bundle (avb) was studied in 10 adult cats (5 males and 5 females). the trunk of the atrioventricular bundle was a direct continuation of the atrioventricular node (avn) with no sharp line of demarcation between node and the bundle. the avb of the male cats measured 6.24 mm in length, 0.27 mm in width and 0.65 mm in thickness, while in t...

RATIONALE The clinically important atrioventricular conduction axis is structurally complex and heterogeneous, and its molecular composition and developmental origin are uncertain. OBJECTIVE To assess the molecular composition and 3D architecture of the atrioventricular conduction axis in the postnatal mouse heart and to define the developmental origin of its component parts. METHODS AND RE...

Clinically important supraventricular arrhythmias are occasionally encountered in patients following cardiac transplantation and the use of catheter ablation as a treatment has been reported. The following three cases are described: (1) atrial flutter, including electroanatomic mapping of the donor and recipient components of the right atrium, (2) a mid-septal accessory pathway, and (3) atriove...

AIMS The aim of this study was to compare cardiac autonomic regulation in patients with a history of paroxysmal supraventricular tachyarrhythmias, such as atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia and atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia, and healthy controls. METHODS AND RESULTS Seventeen patients with paroxysmal atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (atrioventricular nodal reent...

are described; two had ischaemic heart disease, and one had cardiomyopathy. In thefirst case the slow ventricular response to atrialfibrillation was a result of incomplete atrioventricular nodal block, and in the other two His bundle electrograms demonstrated that the slow ventricular response was due to bilateral bundle-branch block. The association of atrial fibrillation and conduction delays...

Many heart anatomy models have been developed to study the electrophysiological properties of the human heart. However, none of them includes the geometry of the whole human heart. In this study, an anatomically detailed mathematical model of the human heart was firstly reconstructed from the computed tomography images. In the reconstructed model, the atria consisted of atrial muscles, sinoatri...

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW) is a term referring to Louis Wolff who published an article in 1930 that describes 11 patients suffering from episodes of tachycardia with characteristic ECG findings (ECG pattern shows bundle branch block and shortened P-R interval). In 1943, anatomical accessory pathway of conducting tissue has been described that bypasses the atrioventricular (AV) conduct...

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW) is a term referring to Louis Wolff who published an article in 1930 that describes 11 patients suffering from episodes of tachycardia with characteristic ECG findings (ECG pattern shows bundle branch block and shortened P-R interval). In 1943, anatomical accessory pathway of conducting tissue has been described that bypasses the atrioventricular (AV) conduct...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the safety and efficacy of cryoablation in the treatment of pediatric patients with accessory pathways (APs) located near the atrioventricular junction and with atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT). BACKGROUND Few studies concern cryoablation in a significant number of pediatric patients involving treatment for supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs) w...