30 yr old manNormal echo

3 episodes of paroxysmal tachyAll LBBB

Inputs from Chandrashekhar, Chennai

Analyse. Low atrial (CS) pacing. As CL decreases, there is gradual QRS widening resembling LBBB with LAD.

400 ms

First is a sinus beat which shows His potential in the His D is earlier than the RB Potential in the RBP, which in turn is earlier than the RB potential in the RBD. Then pacing from HRAD starts (contrast with CS pacing in slide1), showing preexcitation. The wavefront goes down the right free wall pathway-- right atriofascicular pathway since it inserts distally into distal RBB So the RB potential from RBD now occurs earlier than the RB potential from RBP, which in turn occurs earlier than the His potential from His D indicating that the wavefront is going from below upwards

620 ms

A pacing showing preexcitation; with atrial premature beat (S2)there is very slight increase in the preexcitation

Any additional information? With V pacing and ventricular premature there is V3 phenomenon ( Bundle branch reentry)

Now? No additional insight

Diagnosis confirmed? Yes. Delayed RA APD after the septal A is committed preexcites the V indicating the presence of an AP and also resets the tachycardia, indicating the participation of the AP in the tachycardia circuit

Again…The same

And now? The tachycardia is terminated with an APD without conducting to the ventricle, indicating that the atrium is a component of the circuit

Adenosine-commentTachycardia is terminated in the AV node

Adenosine- commentNo preexcitation seen

Any use of this manouever? Not really from the post-entrainment response point of view.However, one may induce retrograde right bundle branch block sometimes which results in

prolongation of the tachycardia cycle length

LB with superior axis - Mahaim antidromic tachycardia

Soon after- analyse. Preexcited A Fib intermittently (also seen in next slide)A rare ECG with Mahaim-like pathways

During catheter positioning-interpret. Catheter bump.

No Mahaim potential along tricuspid annulus

Mapping performed during atrial pacing and during tachycardia

What next?

To map more distally along the the atriofascicular pathway closer to the distal insertion site

RF site- LAO 40

RF site- RAO 30

Signal at RF site

RF energy

As energy was continued, there was some automaticity of the heated RV site

After this, no preexcitation was seen with atrial pacing and no tachy was inducible