2020/10/01 by James Pennoyer, Michael Bykhovsky, Daniel Sohinki +2 · 1 citation
Medicine · #Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments #Congenital Heart Disease Studies #Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies #Great arteries #Medicine #Cardiology #Heart disease #Atrial tachycardia #Internal medicine #Catheter ablation #Ablation #Transposition (logic) #Tachycardia
paper · pdf · doi:10.19102/icrm.2020.111005
openalex publication_date 2020/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/21
Adults with congenital heart disease represent a complex and growing patient population. By virtue of their variant anatomy and the complex surgical repair often required in infancy, these patients are at risk of developing unique atrial and ventricular arrhythmias throughout their lifetimes. Electrophysiologists involved in the care of these patients should have a detailed understanding of their underlying anatomy and any prior surgical procedures to guide procedural planning and should have knowledge of the range of possible arrhythmia mechanisms that may differ from patients without structural heart disease. Despite this complexity, standard mapping techniques and electrophysiologic maneuvers may still be used to elucidate arrhythmia mechanisms, map tachycardia circuits, and guide catheter ablation. We report a case of two different macroreentrant right atrial tachycardias that were successfully ablated in a patient with congenitally-corrected transposition of the great arteries.