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Novel method to avoid serious injurious effects on the atrioventricular nodal (AVN) conduction during catheter ablation of the AVN slow pathway utilizing cryofreezing energy.
Journal of Cardiology 2023 September 14
BACKGROUND: Slow pathway elimination of the atrioventricular node (AVN) is essential to treat AVN reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT). However, injury to the AVN conduction (IAVN) is one of the serious complications. Cryofreezing energy is expected to reduce the incidence of IAVN. This study aimed to investigate the usefulness of a novel method to avoid IAVN during cryoablation of AVNRT.
METHODS: A total of 157 patients (average age, 65.8 years; male, 71) suffering from AVNRT were included. Once the AVNRT terminated during cryo-ablation, then rapid atrial constant pacing (RACP) was performed during freezing at a rate lower 10 bpm than that inducing Wenchebach AV block in 74 (47.1 %) patients (Group A). The RACP rate was decreasingly reduced by 10 bpm in case of the occurrence of IAVN. When the RACP reached 100 bpm, the cryoablation was prematurely terminated. Group B patients (83 = 52.9 %) underwent cryoablation during sinus rhythm. All patients were allocated in a randomized fashion. We compared the severity of the IAVN between Groups A and B.
RESULTS: There were no significant differences at 12 months regarding the freedom from the AVNRT between Groups A and B. However, the duration of the IAVN was significantly longer in Group B than A (p = 0.02). There were no significant differences regarding the distance between the His recording sites and successful ablation sites between Groups A and B. No permanent IAVN requiring pacemaker implantation was provoked in either group.
CONCLUSION: RACP was useful to avoid sustained and serious IAVN during cryoablation of AVNRT.
METHODS: A total of 157 patients (average age, 65.8 years; male, 71) suffering from AVNRT were included. Once the AVNRT terminated during cryo-ablation, then rapid atrial constant pacing (RACP) was performed during freezing at a rate lower 10 bpm than that inducing Wenchebach AV block in 74 (47.1 %) patients (Group A). The RACP rate was decreasingly reduced by 10 bpm in case of the occurrence of IAVN. When the RACP reached 100 bpm, the cryoablation was prematurely terminated. Group B patients (83 = 52.9 %) underwent cryoablation during sinus rhythm. All patients were allocated in a randomized fashion. We compared the severity of the IAVN between Groups A and B.
RESULTS: There were no significant differences at 12 months regarding the freedom from the AVNRT between Groups A and B. However, the duration of the IAVN was significantly longer in Group B than A (p = 0.02). There were no significant differences regarding the distance between the His recording sites and successful ablation sites between Groups A and B. No permanent IAVN requiring pacemaker implantation was provoked in either group.
CONCLUSION: RACP was useful to avoid sustained and serious IAVN during cryoablation of AVNRT.
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