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Ripple map delineation of the reentrant circuit in a tricuspid annular atrial tachycardia mimicking focal activity.

ABSTRACT: A 70-year-old man with hypertensive heart disease underwent catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation. After completing the pulmonary vein isolation, atrial burst pacing induced an annular atrial tachycardia (AT). Overdrive pacing exhibited constant fusion, indicating a macroreentrant mechanism of the AT. However, the CARTO3 activation map created using the Octaray catheter (both Biosense Webster, Irvine, CA) exhibited a centrifugal spread with the earliest activation site at the 4 o'clock position of the tricuspid annulus. In contrast, the Ripple map revealed a clear reentrant circuit with its isthmus located at the 4-6 o'clock position of the tricuspid annulus. The local electrograms in these areas recorded systolic and diastolic potentials simultaneously, and the misannotation of the large far-field potentials caused this discrepant result. Handling low-amplitude complex fractionated electrograms remains a challenge in creating a precise activation mapping. The Ripple map, especially when combined with the Octaray catheter, was effective in dynamically visualizing all these electrograms and accurately delineating the reentrant circuit.

SUBMITTER: Mizutani A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361873 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ripple map delineation of the reentrant circuit in a tricuspid annular atrial tachycardia mimicking focal activity.

Mizutani Akinobu A Okada Masato M Tanaka Koji K Tanaka Nobuaki N

Indian pacing and electrophysiology journal 20240618 4

A 70-year-old man with hypertensive heart disease underwent catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation. After completing the pulmonary vein isolation, atrial burst pacing induced an annular atrial tachycardia (AT). Overdrive pacing exhibited constant fusion, indicating a macroreentrant mechanism of the AT. However, the CARTO3 activation map created using the Octaray catheter (both Biosense Webster, Irvine, CA) exhibited a centrifugal spread with the earliest activation site at the 4 o'c ...[more]

PMID: 38901653

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Project description:BackgroundInfarct border zone (IBZ) geometry likely affects inducibility and characteristics of postinfarction reentrant ventricular tachycardia, but the connection has not been established.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia in the IBZ.MethodsA geometric model describing the relationship between IBZ geometry and wavefront propagation in reentrant circuits was developed. Based on the formulation, slow conduction and block were expected to coincide with areas where IBZ thickness (T) is minimal and the local spatial gradient in thickness (DeltaT) is maximal, so that the degree of wavefront curvature rho proportional, variant DeltaT/T is maximal. Regions of fastest conduction velocity were predicted to coincide with areas of minimum DeltaT. In seven arrhythmogenic postinfarction canine heart experiments, tachycardia was induced by programmed stimulation, and activation maps were constructed from multichannel recordings. IBZ thickness was measured in excised hearts from histologic analysis or magnetic resonance imaging. Reentrant circuit properties were predicted from IBZ geometry and compared with ventricular activation maps after tachycardia induction.ResultsMean IBZ thickness was 231 +/- 140 microm at the reentry isthmus and 1440 +/- 770 microm in the outer pathway (P <0.001). Mean curvature rho was 1.63 +/- 0.45 mm(-1) at functional block line locations, 0.71 +/- 0.18 mm(-1) at isthmus entrance-exit points, and 0.33 +/- 0.13 mm(-1) in the outer reentrant circuit pathway. The mean conduction velocity about the circuit during reentrant tachycardia was 0.32 +/- 0.04 mm/ms at entrance-exit points, 0.42 +/- 0.13 mm/ms for the entire outer pathway, and 0.64 +/- 0.16 mm/ms at outer pathway regions with minimum DeltaT. Model sensitivity and specificity to detect isthmus location was 75.0% and 97.2%.ConclusionsReentrant circuit features as determined by activation mapping can be predicted on the basis of IBZ geometrical relationships.

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Ripple map delineation of the reentrant circuit in a tricuspid annular atrial tachycardia mimicking focal activity.

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Ripple map delineation of the reentrant circuit in a tricuspid annular atrial tachycardia mimicking focal activity.

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