Grid Mapping Catheter for Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation. 2019

Kenji Okubo, and Antonio Frontera, and Caterina Bisceglia, and Gabriele Paglino, and Andrea Radinovic, and Luca Foppoli, and Federico Calore, and Paolo Della Bella
Arrhythmology Unit, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy (K.O, A.F., C.B., G.P., A.R., L.F., P.D.B.).

A new grid mapping catheter (GMC)-allowing for bipolar recordings of the electrograms in each orthogonal direction-became available. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the utility of the GMC in creating substrate and ventricular tachycardia (VT) activation maps during VT ablation procedures. From December 2017 to July 2018, 41 consecutive patients undergoing a VT ablation procedure using a GMC were studied. During the substrate mapping, 3 different maps were created using the 3 GMC bipolar configurations (along the spline, across the spline, HD wave solution); the low voltage area and late potential areas were compared. In case of inducible VTs, the GMC was used to create the VT activation maps focusing on the diastolic interval. The relation between diastolic activities during VT and substrate abnormality during sinus rhythm was also investigated. The median low-voltage area drawn by the HD wave configuration was 28.9 cm2, 13% and 15% smaller than the low-voltage areas identified by the along and across configuration, respectively (33.1 and 33.9 cm2; P<0.0001). The late potential areas obtained with the 3 GMC configuration did not differ (P>0.05). VT activation mappings using the GMC were performed in 40 VTs, visualizing the full diastolic pathway in 22 (55%) of them. While the latest late potential areas were included in VT diastolic pathway in 17 VTs, the other 6 VTs showed mismatching of them. Identifying the full diastolic pathway led to a higher ongoing VT termination rate during the ablation than in case of partial recordings (88% versus 45%; P=0.03); furthermore, in the former situation, the noninducibility of the targeted VTs was achieved in all cases. The GMC is a useful tool for performing substrate and VT activation mappings during the VT ablation procedure, precisely identifying the low-voltage areas and quickly visualizing the diastolic pathways.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D004867 Equipment Design Methods and patterns of fabricating machines and related hardware. Design, Equipment,Device Design,Medical Device Design,Design, Medical Device,Designs, Medical Device,Device Design, Medical,Device Designs, Medical,Medical Device Designs,Design, Device,Designs, Device,Designs, Equipment,Device Designs,Equipment Designs
D005260 Female Females
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective
D015203 Reproducibility of Results The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results. Reliability and Validity,Reliability of Result,Reproducibility Of Result,Reproducibility of Finding,Validity of Result,Validity of Results,Face Validity,Reliability (Epidemiology),Reliability of Results,Reproducibility of Findings,Test-Retest Reliability,Validity (Epidemiology),Finding Reproducibilities,Finding Reproducibility,Of Result, Reproducibility,Of Results, Reproducibility,Reliabilities, Test-Retest,Reliability, Test-Retest,Result Reliabilities,Result Reliability,Result Validities,Result Validity,Result, Reproducibility Of,Results, Reproducibility Of,Test Retest Reliability,Validity and Reliability,Validity, Face
D017115 Catheter Ablation Removal of tissue with electrical current delivered via electrodes positioned at the distal end of a catheter. Energy sources are commonly direct current (DC-shock) or alternating current at radiofrequencies (usually 750 kHz). The technique is used most often to ablate the AV junction and/or accessory pathways in order to interrupt AV conduction and produce AV block in the treatment of various tachyarrhythmias. Ablation, Transvenous Electric,Catheter Ablation, Electric,Catheter Ablation, Percutaneous,Catheter Ablation, Radiofrequency,Catheter Ablation, Transvenous,Ablation, Catheter,Ablation, Transvenous Electrical,Catheter Ablation, Electrical,Electric Catheter Ablation,Electrical Catheter Ablation,Percutaneous Catheter Ablation,Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation,Transvenous Catheter Ablation,Ablation, Electric Catheter,Ablation, Electrical Catheter,Ablation, Percutaneous Catheter,Ablation, Radiofrequency Catheter,Ablation, Transvenous Catheter,Electric Ablation, Transvenous,Electrical Ablation, Transvenous,Transvenous Electric Ablation,Transvenous Electrical Ablation
D017180 Tachycardia, Ventricular An abnormally rapid ventricular rhythm usually in excess of 150 beats per minute. It is generated within the ventricle below the BUNDLE OF HIS, either as autonomic impulse formation or reentrant impulse conduction. Depending on the etiology, onset of ventricular tachycardia can be paroxysmal (sudden) or nonparoxysmal, its wide QRS complexes can be uniform or polymorphic, and the ventricular beating may be independent of the atrial beating (AV dissociation). Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia,Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia,Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia,Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias,Ventricular Tachycardia,Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardias,Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardias,Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias,Supraventricular Tachycardia, Paroxysmal,Tachyarrhythmia, Ventricular,Tachycardia, Idiopathic Ventricular,Tachycardia, Nonsustained Ventricular,Tachycardia, Paroxysmal Supraventricular,Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia,Ventricular Tachycardia, Idiopathic,Ventricular Tachycardia, Nonsustained,Ventricular Tachycardias

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