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OBJECTIVES:In patients with atrial flutter (AFL) and postoperative right atrial incisional scars, we sought to assess if the use of additional ablative lesions that targeted all potential re-entrant circuits, regardless of the presenting type of flutter, would prevent long-term recurrence. BACKGROUND:Patients with AFL and incisional scars have a complex atrial substrate that may promote multiple mechanisms of intra-atrial re-entry. METHODS:Twenty-nine patients with single right atrial incisional scars undergoing ablation for scar-dependent (n = 15) and cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI)-dependent (n = 14) flutter were studied. RESULTS:In the scar-dependent group, 9 of 15 (60%) patients had inducible or spontaneous CTI-dependent flutter immediately after ablation. In the group with CTI flutter, 7 of 14 (50%) patients had scar-related flutter immediately after ablation. If a second type of flutter was found during the initial ablation, a second ablation was performed either along the isthmus (scar-dependent group) or from the scar to another anatomic boundary (isthmus-dependent group). Patients were followed for 24 +/- 5 months and 18 +/- 6 months in the scar- and CTI-dependent groups, respectively. In the scar-dependent group, five of six (83%) who underwent only a single flutter line had recurrence at 3 +/- 1 months. In the isthmus-dependent group, three of seven (42%) patients who had only one flutter line performed had recurrence at 5 +/- 3 months. There was no flutter recurrence in patients who initially received two different flutter lines or in patients who subsequently underwent a second flutter line at follow-up. CONCLUSIONS:In patients with postoperative right atrial incisional scar and flutter, multiple ablation lines that target both scar-related and classic isthmuses appear necessary to prevent long-term recurrence.
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J Am Coll Cardioljournal_title
Journal of the American College of Cardiologyauthors
Verma A,Marrouche NF,Seshadri N,Schweikert RA,Bhargava M,Burkhardt JD,Kilicaslan F,Cummings J,Saliba W,Natale Adoi
10.1016/j.jacc.2004.04.045subject
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2004-07-21 00:00:00pages
409-14issue
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0735-1097issn
1558-3597pii
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44pub_type
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