[Non-pharmacologic therapy of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias]. 1991

D Petrac, and J Gjurović
Zavod za kardiovaskularne bolesti, Interna klinika, KB Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb.

In the last ten years different forms of nonpharmacological therapy of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias were developed. One of the major advances is the catheter fulguration, which has reduced significantly need for surgical procedures in the treatment of atrial or junctional tachyarrhythmias. Operative treatment for dissection or ablation of accessory atrioventricular pathways is currently highly successful with minimal morbidity in any pathway location. The use of an antitachycardia pacemaker is limited to some reentrant tachycardias. The choice of nonpharmacological therapy is strongly individual and depends on the type and etiologic underlaying of supraventricular tachyarrhythmia.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010138 Pacemaker, Artificial A device designed to stimulate, by electric impulses, contraction of the heart muscles. It may be temporary (external) or permanent (internal or internal-external). Cardiac Pacemaker, Artificial,Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker,Artificial Cardiac Pacemakers,Artificial Pacemaker,Artificial Pacemakers,Cardiac Pacemakers, Artificial,Pacemaker, Artificial Cardiac,Pacemakers, Artificial,Pacemakers, Artificial Cardiac
D004564 Electrocoagulation Procedures using an electrically heated wire or scalpel to treat hemorrhage (e.g., bleeding ulcers) and to ablate tumors, mucosal lesions, and refractory arrhythmias. It is different from ELECTROSURGERY which is used more for cutting tissue than destroying and in which the patient is part of the electric circuit. Diathermy, Surgical,Electrocautery,Endocavitary Fulguration,Galvanocautery,Surgical Diathermy,Thermocoagulation,Fulguration, Endocavitary
D006329 Heart Conduction System An impulse-conducting system composed of modified cardiac muscle, having the power of spontaneous rhythmicity and conduction more highly developed than the rest of the heart. Conduction System, Heart,Conduction Systems, Heart,Heart Conduction Systems,System, Heart Conduction,Systems, Heart Conduction
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013617 Tachycardia, Supraventricular A generic expression for any tachycardia that originates above the BUNDLE OF HIS. Supraventricular Tachycardia,Supraventricular Tachycardias,Tachycardias, Supraventricular

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