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Beyond Anatomy: Use of Sinus Propagation Mapping to Identify the Slow Pathway for Cryoablation in Pediatric Patients
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The Journal of innovations in cardiac rhythm management (Print), 2023-12, Vol.14 (12), p.5682-5688
Ort / Verlag
United States: MediaSphere Medical
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Slow pathway modification via cryoablation is a common treatment of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) in pediatric patients. Sinus propagation mapping (SPM) is a tool that has been used to augment identification of the AVNRT slow pathway. We hypothesize that the use of SPM will decrease the total number of ablations performed and decrease the number of ablations until the slow pathway is successfully modified without a significant increase in procedure time. We conducted a retrospective review of patients who underwent cryoablation for AVNRT from August 2016 through March 2021. We excluded patients >21 years of age, those who underwent radiofrequency ablation; those with prior AVNRT ablation, additional pathways, or arrhythmias; and those with congenital heart disease. Out of 122 patients identified by the IMPACT database query, 103 met the inclusion criteria. Fifty-two patients (50.5%) had SPM completed during their procedures. The median number of ablations needed until successful slow pathway modification was two ablations in patients who underwent SPM and four ablations in the non-SPM group (
= .03). There was no significant difference in the total number of ablations between groups. The median total procedural time was longer in the SPM group (152 vs. 125 min;
= .01). SPM can be utilized to further improve the successful treatment of AVNRT with cryotherapy by lowering the number of ablations needed until successful slow pathway modification. However, the technique requires some additional time to collect sufficient data points to create the sinus map.