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Atrial Tachycardias

Ablation of atrial tachycardias with 3-D mapping was effective and safe

Published in Health and Medicine Week, July 18th, 2005

A recent report provides a comparison between 3-dimensional electroanatomical mapping and conventional mapping in the ablation of atrial tachycardias.

"In atrial tachycardias, catheter ablation using a conventional mapping system is associated with high immediate success and low recurrence. Three-dimensional electroanatomical mapping system combined to catheter ablation of atrial tachycardias has reached, in small uncontrolled series, success rates of 100%. However, limited data are available about rates of recurrence or complication using this approach," scientists in the United States report.

P. Milliez and colleagues of Harvard University wrote,...

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