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Prevalence and significance of exit block during arrhythmias arising in pulmonary veins.

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INTRODUCTION:Recent studies described the occurrence of conduction block within pulmonary veins. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of exit block during arrhythmias that arise in pulmonary veins. METHODS AND RESULTS:Twenty-five patients with atrial tachycardia/fibrillation underwent successful ablation of 28 arrhythmogenic foci within a pulmonary vein. The prevalence of exit block in the pulmonary veins was determined in 28 arrhythmogenic pulmonary veins and 40 nonarrhythmogenic pulmonary veins. During isolated premature depolarizations, exit block in a pulmonary vein was observed at 50% of arrhythmogenic pulmonary vein sites and was never observed within pulmonary veins that did not generate a tachycardia (P < 0.01). During tachycardia, exit block from a pulmonary vein was observed in 61% of the arrhythmogenic pulmonary veins. The mean cycle length of the pulmonary vein tachycardias associated with exit block was significantly shorter than the cycle length of tachycardias that were not associated with exit block (163 +/- 32 vs 251 +/- 45 msec, P < 0.001). Exit block in two pulmonary veins during the same episode of tachycardia was observed in 3 of the 28 arrhythmogenic pulmonary veins (11%) in three different patients. Simultaneous recordings in the two pulmonary veins demonstrated bursts of tachycardia in both veins that were not synchronized. Radiofrequency catheter ablation of the arrhythmogenic site in one of the pulmonary veins eliminated spontaneous recurrences of tachycardia from the other pulmonary vein. CONCLUSION:Exit block from pulmonary veins is a common observation during tachycardias generated within pulmonary veins and indicates that an arrhythmogenic pulmonary vein has been identified. The occurrence of exit block in more than one pulmonary vein most likely is attributable to simultaneous tachycardias, one or both of which may be tachycardia induced and perpetuated by the other.

journal_name

J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol

journal_title

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors

Tse HF,Lau CP,Kou W,Pelosi F,Oral H,Kim M,Michaud GF,Knight BP,Moscucci M,Strickberger SA,Morady F

doi

10.1111/j.1540-8167.2000.tb00332.x

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pub_date

2000-04-01 00:00:00

pages

379-86

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eissn

1045-3873

issn

1540-8167

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Prevalence and significance of exit block during arrhythmias arising in pulmonary veins.