Catheter ablation of recipient-to-donor atrioatrial conduction with Wenckebach-like phenomenon after orthotopic heart transplantation

Konstantinos P Letsas; Reinhold Weber; Thomas Arentz; Dietrich Kalusche

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2008.05.010

Catheter ablation of recipient-to-donor atrioatrial conduction with Wenckebach-like phenomenon after orthotopic heart transplantation

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2008 Aug;27(8):917-20. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.05.010. Epub 2008 Jun 24.

Authors

Konstantinos P Letsas¹, Reinhold Weber, Thomas Arentz, Dietrich Kalusche

Affiliation

¹ Arrhythmia Service, Herz-Zentrum, Bad Krozingen, Germany. letsaskpa@yahoo.co.uk

PMID: 18656808
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.05.010

Abstract

This report describes a case of atrial tachycardia in the recipient atrium manifested electrocardiographically as typical atrial flutter in the donor atrium due to atrioatrial conduction delay with Wenckebach-like phenomenon at the anastomotic line. Radio-frequency energy application resulted in immediate recipient-to-donor conduction block.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Anastomosis, Surgical
Atrial Flutter / physiopathology
Atrial Flutter / surgery*
Catheter Ablation / methods*
Electrocardiography
Heart Atria / surgery
Heart Conduction System / physiopathology
Heart Transplantation*
Humans
Male
Sutures
Tachycardia, Ectopic Atrial / physiopathology
Tachycardia, Ectopic Atrial / surgery*