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Role of Right Atrial Endocardial Structures as Barriers to Conduction During Human Type I Atrial Flutter: Activation and Entrainment Mapping Guided by Intracardiac Echocardiography

Olgin, Jeffrey E., Kalman, Jonathan M., Fitzpatrick, Adam P., Lesh, Michael D.·1995·Circulation

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The importance of barriers in atrial flutter has been demonstrated in animals. We used activation and entrainment mapping, guided by intracardiac echocardiography (ICE), to determine whether the crista terminalis (CT) and eustachian ridge (ER) are barriers to conduction during typical atrial flutter in humans. METHODS AND RESULTS: In eight patients, ICE was used to guide the placement of 20-pole and octapolar catheters along the CT and interatrial septum and a roving catheter to nine sites: just posterior (1) and anterior (2) to the CT along the lateral right atrium, at the fossa ovalis (3), and just posterior and anterior to the ER at the low posterolateral (4 and 5), low posterior (6 and 7), and low posteromedial (8 and 9) right atrium. Entrainment was performed, and each site was considered within the flutter circuit if the postpacing interval-flutter cycle length (PPI-FCL) and the stimulus time-activation time (stim time-act time) were < 10 msec. Split potentials were recorded along the CT with components activated in a low-to-high pattern and a high-to-low pattern. Conduction times, as percentage of FCL, were significantly different at sites on either side of the CT and ER: site 1 (33 +/- 13%) and site 2 (43 +/- 12%) (P = .02), site 4 (48 +/- 24%) and site 5 (75 +/- 8.9%) (P = .02), and site 6 (22 +/- 10%) and site 7 (82 +/- 5.3%) (P = .0009). During entrainment, no surface fusion was observed at sites 5, 7, or 9. The PPI-FCL and stim time-act time were not significantly different than 0 at sites 2, 7, 5, or 9, indicating that they were within the flutter circuit, whereas sites 1, 3, 4, and 6 were not. CONCLUSIONS: ICE enabled the correlation of functional electrophysiological properties with specific anatomic landmarks, identifying the CT and ER as barriers to conduction during human atrial flutter.

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Authors
Olgin, J. E., Kalman, J. M., Fitzpatrick, A. P., & Lesh, M. D.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Venue
Circulation
Published
1995-10
Volume
92
Issue
7
Pages
1839-1848
ISSN
  • 0009-7322 (ISSN-L)
  • 1524-4539
OpenAlex
W2168770908
Cited by
500
References
38
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FWCI
28.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Circulation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r29hl045664-03)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL 45664)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
Keywords
atrial flutter, crista terminalis, Eustachian ridge, right atrium, activation mapping, entrainment mapping, intracardiac echocardiography, postpacing interval
MeSH terms
Aged, Atrial Flutter, Cardiac Pacing, Artificial, Echocardiography, Electrocardiography, Endocardium, Female, Heart Atria, Cardiac Catheterization, Heart Conduction System, Humans, Male, Atrial Function, Right, Catheter Ablation

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