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- Title
Non-fluoroscopic cardiac ablation of neonates with CHD.
- Authors
Bigelow, Amee M.; Arnold, Brandon S.; Padrutt, Gregory C.; Clark, John M.
- Abstract
In current practice, children with anatomically normal hearts routinely undergo fluoroscopy-free ablations. Infants and children with congenital heart disease (CHD) represent the most difficult population to perform catheter ablation without fluoroscopy. We report two neonatal patients with CHD in whom cardiac ablations were performed without fluoroscopy. The first infant had pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum with refractory supraventricular tachycardia, and the second infant presented with Ebstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve along with persistent supraventricular tachycardia. Both patients underwent uncomplicated, successful ablation without recurrence of arrhythmias. These cases suggest that current approaches to minimising fluoroscopy may be useful even in challenging patients such as neonates with CHD.
- Subjects
CONGENITAL heart disease; DRUGS; PULMONARY atresia; PEDIATRIC cardiology
- Publication
Cardiology in the Young, 2017, Vol 27, Issue 3, p592
- ISSN
1047-9511
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S1047951116001554