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Successful Ablation of a Wide Complex Tachycardia with Distinct Intra-Cardiac Electrograms
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  • yuval konstantino,
  • Kirill Buturlin,
  • Roi Westreich,
  • Sergiy Bereza,
  • Aviva Levitas,
  • Leonel Slanovic,
  • Moti Haim
yuval konstantino
Soroka Medical Center

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Kirill Buturlin
Soroka Medical Center
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Roi Westreich
Soroka Medical Center
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Sergiy Bereza
Soroka Medical Center
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Aviva Levitas
Soroka Medical Center
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Leonel Slanovic
Soroka Medical Center
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Moti Haim
Soroka Medical Center
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Abstract

A 13-year-old boy was hospitalized after a syncopal episode that occurred during exercise. He suddenly felt chest tightness, sweating and palpitations, followed by a transient loss of conciseness. Upon emergency medical team arrival, he was awake and oriented. Baseline ECG showed sinus rhythm at a rate of 98 bpm, with narrow QRS, and no signs of long QT, Brugada, or pre-excitation. Physical examination, blood tests, 24 hours Holter monitoring, transthoracic echocardiography and stress test were all within normal limits. Eight days later he experienced a second episode of palpitations while walking to school. ECG revealed regular wide complex tachycardia (WCT) at a rate of 200 bpm, with LBBB morphology that terminated with Adenosine (Figure 1). The clinical tachycardia was easily induced by programmed electrical stimulation (Figure 2A). Diagnostic electrophysiological maneuver (Figure 2B) was followed by successful ablation, during which a unique phenomenon was noted (Figure 3). What is the diagnosis of the tachycardia and what are the unique findings noted during and after ablation?
20 Jun 2022Submitted to Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
23 Jun 2022Submission Checks Completed
23 Jun 2022Assigned to Editor
28 Jun 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
29 Jun 2022Editorial Decision: Revise Minor
29 Jun 20221st Revision Received
21 Jul 2022Submission Checks Completed
21 Jul 2022Assigned to Editor
21 Jul 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
27 Jul 2022Editorial Decision: Revise Minor
01 Aug 20222nd Revision Received
01 Aug 2022Submission Checks Completed
01 Aug 2022Assigned to Editor
01 Aug 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
01 Aug 2022Editorial Decision: Accept
05 Aug 2022Published in Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 10.1111/jce.15647