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New frontiers of supraventricular tachycardia and atrial flutter evaluation and catheter ablation
(2012)
Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) has revolutionized treatment for tachyarrhythmias and has become first-line therapy for some tachycardias. Although developed in the 1980s and widely applied in the 1990s, the technique is still in development. Transesophageal atrial pacing (TAP) can used for initiation and termination of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT).
Methods: The paroxysmal SVT include a wide spectrum of disorders including, in descending order of frequency, atrial flutter, atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentry, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and atrial tachycardia. While not life-threatening in most cases, they may cause important symptoms, such as palpitations, chest discomfort, breathlessness, anxiety, and syncope, which significantly impair quality of life. Medical therapy has variable efficacy, and most patients are not rendered free of symptoms. Research over the past several decades has revealed fundamental mechanisms involved in the initiation and maintenance of all of these arrhythmias. Knowledge of mechanisms has in turn led to highly effective surgical and catheter-based treatments. The supraventricular arrhythmias and their treatment are described in this report. SVT initiation was analysed with programmed TAP in 49 patients with palpitations (age 47 ± 17 years, 24 females, 25 males).
Results: In comparison to antiarrhythmic drug therapy the radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients suffering from atrial flutter, atrioventricular nodal reentry, atrioventricular reentry and atrial tachycardia is the better choice in most cases. TAP SVT initiation was possible in 23 patients before RFCA. Atrial cycle length of SVT was 320 ± 59 ms. We initiated AV nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT, n=15), atrial tachycardia (AT, n=6) and AV reentrant tachycardia with Kent pathway conduction (AVRT, n=2) before RFCA.
Conclusions: Radiofrequency catheter ablation is a successful and safe method to cure most patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias. TAP allowed initiation and termination of SVT especially in outpatients.
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Surface and interface acoustic waves are two-dimensionally guided waves, as their displacement field is plane-wave like regarding its dependence on the spatial coordinates parallel to the guiding plane, while it decays exponentially along the axis normal to that plane. When propagating at the planar surface or interface of homogeneous media, they are non-dispersive. Another type of non-dispersive acoustic waves which is, however, one-dimensionally guided, has displacement fields localized near the apex of a wedge made of an elastic material. In this short review, their propagation properties are described as well as theoretical and experimental methods which have been used for their analysis. Experimental findings are discussed in comparison with corresponding theoretical work and potential applications of this fascinating type of acoustic waves are presented.