The value of a rate change in determining the tachycardia mechanism: which circuits are involved?

Eduardo Back Sternick; Yash Lokhandwala; Hein J J Wellens

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.036

The value of a rate change in determining the tachycardia mechanism: which circuits are involved?

Heart Rhythm. 2014 Jan;11(1):163-6. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.036. Epub 2012 Oct 29.

Authors

Eduardo Back Sternick¹, Yash Lokhandwala², Hein J J Wellens³

Affiliations

¹ Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Unit, Biocor Instituto, Nova Lima, Brazil; Instituto de Pós-Graduação, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Electronic address: eduardosternick@terra.com.br.
² Arrhythmia Associates, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
³ Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

PMID: 23117008
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.036

No abstract available

Keywords: AV; AVNRT; AVRT; Atriofascicular pathway; Double tachycardia; LBBB; Supraventricular tachycardia; VA; Wide QRS complex tachycardia; atrioventricular; atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; atrioventricular tachycardia; left bundle branch block; ventriculoatrial.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Bundle of His / physiopathology*
Bundle of His / surgery
Catheter Ablation
Diagnosis, Differential
Electrocardiography*
Female
Heart Rate / physiology*
Humans
Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / diagnosis*
Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / physiopathology
Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry / surgery