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Uncommon presentation of a common tachycardia
Raja Selvaraj1, Palamalai Arunprasath, Balakrishnan Karthikeyan
1Department of Cardiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
Abstract:
We describe a patient with an implanted pacemaker for impaired AV conduction who presented with an incessant tachycardia. EP study showed that the tachycardia was atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) with repeated spontaneous initiation because of poor or absent antegrade fast pathway conduction. Slow pathway ablation was successful in terminating the tachycardia and making it non-inducible.
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