Not Just a One-Way: Mahaim Accessory Pathway Concomitantly Supporting Orthodromic Atrioventricular Re-Entrant
Alexandru Deaconu1,2, Viviana Gondos3, Radu Vatasescu1,2
1Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania.
Introduction:
We report the case of a 41-year-old female with documented narrow QRS tachycardia. During electrophysiological study, both orthodromic and antidromic atrioventricular reentry tachycardia (AVRT) were demonstrated as well as short episodes of pre-excited atrial fibrillation. Programmed atrial stimulation resulted in decremental anterograde conduction on the AP, thus confirming an unexpected Mahaim accessory pathway (AP) diagnosis.
Discussion:
Limited 3D activation maps of the right atrium during orthoAVRT, respectively, and the right ventricle (RV) during antiAVRT were constructed and helped accurately describe the atrial and ventricular insertion points, which were superposed on the tricuspid ring, confirming the existence of a single short atrio-ventricular right free wall AP. Short atrioventricular APs with anterograde Mahaim-type conduction concomitantly sustaining orthodromic AVRT are extremely rare.
Conclusions:
Electroanatomical 3D mapping may help both to clarify the diagnosis and increase the success rate by accurately describing the insertion points of complex accessory pathways.
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