Volume 22, Issue 2 pp. 382-385

Catheter Ablation in a Patient with a Congenital Giant Right Atrial Diverticulum Presented as Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

FIORENZO GAITA

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FIORENZO GAITA

Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Asti, Italy

Address for reprints: Fiorenzo Gaita, M.D., Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Asti, Via Botallo, 4, 00141 Asti, Italy. Fax: 39-141-392220.Search for more papers by this author
MICHEL HAISSAGUERRE

MICHEL HAISSAGUERRE

Hopital Cardiologique du Haut-Léveque, Bordeaux-Pessac, France

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MARCO SCAGLIONE

MARCO SCAGLIONE

Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Asti, Italy

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PIERRE JAIS

PIERRE JAIS

Hopital Cardiologique du Haut-Léveque, Bordeaux-Pessac, France

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RICCARDO RICCARDI

RICCARDO RICCARDI

Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Asti, Italy

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FILIPPO LAMBERTI

FILIPPO LAMBERTI

Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Asti, Italy

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LEONARDO CALÒ

LEONARDO CALÒ

Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Asti, Italy

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First published: 30 June 2006
Citations: 10

Abstract

A young woman symptomatic for tachycardia showed right ventricular preexcitation on the surface ECG with a pattern during induced atrial fibrillation suggestive of multiple APs. Noninvasive imaging techniques performed prior to catheter ablation demonstrated the presence of a giant right atrial diverticulum confirmed by hemodynamic procedure. This structure functioned as an enormous accessory AP. We performed catheter ablation of this pathway using a special 4-mm multipolar catheter inside the diverticulum. This is the first case of such an anomaly being successfully treated with catheter ablation.

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