Department of Clinical Electrophysiology, Thoraxcenter Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Jun;29(6):700-3. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2010.01.003. Epub 2010 Mar 29.
Atrial tachycardias occurring late after orthotopic heart transplantation are frequently caused by an ongoing atrial tachycardia in the recipient remnant atrium that is associated with intra-atrial muscle band connections between the 2 atrial compartments. The standard approach for most centers that treat these patients is to identify and disconnect these intra-atrial connections. We present a patient where double intra-atrial connections were capable of different degrees of stimulus propagation from the recipient remnant atrium to the donor atrial compartment. After the ablation of both intra-atrial connections, we also ablated the index arrhythmia in the recipient remnant atrium. This case presentation draws attention to the possibility of the presence of multiple intra-atrial connections.
心脏移植术后晚期出现的房性心动过速常常是由受体残留心房中的持续性房性心动过速引起的,这种心动过速与两个心房腔之间的心房内肌束连接有关。大多数治疗这些患者的中心的标准方法是识别和断开这些心房内连接。我们介绍了一位患者,其双心房内连接能够在不同程度上从受体残留心房向供体心房腔传导刺激。在消融两条心房内连接后,我们还消融了受体残留心房中的心律失常灶。这个病例报告引起了对可能存在多个心房内连接的关注。