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Frontal placement of dispersive patch for effective ablation of arrhythmia originating from the anterior right ventricular outflow tract
Frontal placement of dispersive patch for effective ablation of arrhythmia originating from the anterior right ventricular outflow tract
Piotr Futyma 0 1
Piotr Kułakowski 0 1
0 Department of Cardiology, Postgraduate Medical School, Grochowski Hospital , Warsaw , Poland
1 Invasive Cardiology Department, St. Joseph's Heart Center , Anny Jagiellonki 17, 35-623 Rzeszów , Poland
Catheter ablation; Anterior right ventricular outflow tract; Dispersive patch
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A 50-year-old female after unsuccessful radiofrequency
catheter ablation (RFCA) of premature ventricular
complexes (PVCs; >45,000 on 24-h Holter ECG) arising from
the anterior right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) was
referred for redo procedure. Standard RFCA (power up
to 70 W and temperature up to 70 °C) failed again to
abolish arrhythmia. Therefore, we decided to relocate the
dispersive patch electrode (DPE) from the standard back
location to a frontal chest position in order to redirect RF
current towards the anterior aspect of the RVOT (Fig. 1c).
The position of the ablation catheter remained constant,
which was confirmed by repeated fluoroscopic LAO 45°
and RAO 45° views and unchanged intracardiac signals.
A single RF application (31 W, 55 °C) immediately
terminated PVCs. During a 4-month follow-up, the patient
remained asymptomatic and 24-h Holter ECG showed
only 40 PVCs. A possibility of creating deeper RF lesions
by adjustment of DPE location has been suggested in a
few studies [1, 2]; however, this approach has never been
implemented into everyday practice. This case report
shows that DPE frontal placement enables effective
RFCA of arrhythmias originating from the anterior RVOT.
Fig. 1 a Fluoroscopic images of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT)
and pulmonary artery (PA) reconstructed and fused using EP Navigator tool
(Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands) (LAO 45° and RAO 45°) with local
signal (Map D) recorded from the ablation catheter (AC) preceding PVC’s
onset by 37 msec. b Clinical PVC with acceptable pacemapping. c
Dispersive patch electrode (DPE) placed in a frontal position
Compliance with ethical standards
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2. Jain MK , Tomassoni G , Riley RE , Wolf PD . Effect of skin electrode location on radiofrequency ablation lesions: an in vivo and a threedimensional finite element study . J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol . 1998 ; 9 : 1325 - 35 . (...truncated)