creators_name: Calkins, Hugh
creators_name: Ajit Kumar, V.K
creators_name: Francis, Johnson
editors_name: Singh, Balbir
editors_name: Lokhandwala, Yash
editors_name: Francis, Johnson
editors_name: Gupta, Anup
type: journalp
datestamp: 2005-05-02
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:02
metadata_visibility: show
title: Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Supraventricular Tachycardia
ispublished: pub
subjects: ipej
full_text_status: public
keywords: supraventricular tachycardia; atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia; atrioventricular re-entry tachycardias
abstract:  Supraventricular tachycardias are quite common in clinical practice. Medical treatment of supraventricular tachycardia often involves regular intake of drugs for several years. Problems of drug therapy include poor efficacy and bothersome side effects including proarrhythmia. This has lead to the development of non-pharmacological therapies. Arrhythmia surgery initially demonstrated that many types of supraventricular arrhythmias could be cured. However during the past decade arrhythmia surgery has been largely replaced by catheter ablation. Catheter ablation can be defined as the use of an electrode catheter to destroy small areas of myocardial tissue or conduction system, or both, that are critical to the initiation or maintenance of cardiac arrhythmias. Arrhythmias most likely to be amenable to cure with catheter ablation are those which have a focal origin or involve a narrow, anatomically defined isthmus.1 This review aims to provide an update on the technique and results associated that can be achieved with catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardias. 

date: 2002-04
date_type: published
publication: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
volume: 2
number: 2
publisher: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Group
pagerange: 45-49
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Calkins, Hugh and Ajit Kumar, V.K and Francis, Johnson  (2002) Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Supraventricular Tachycardia.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
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