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Toru Adachi1, Kentaro Yoshida1, Kenji Kuroki1
1Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Abstract:
A 71-year-old woman with narrow QRS tachycardia was referred for catheter ablation. The clinical tachycardia was diagnosed as slow/fast form of atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) with the upper common pathway. Although neither conventional nor double atrial programmed extrastimulation (APS) showed any evidence of a dual AV nodal pathway, AV simultaneous pacing during basic stimulation preceding APS (AVSP-APS) reproducibly revealed a dual AV nodal pathway as a double ventricular response. The AVSP-APS pacing method may be helpful to unmask a "concealed slow pathway" in patients with AVNRT.
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