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Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

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Patients with orthotopic heart transplantation may develop a variety of arrhythmias. Successful radiofrequency catheter ablation for tachyarrhythmias from manifest and concealed accessory bypass tracts in transplant patients has been previously reported. We present a patient with orthotopic heart transplantation who developed typical atrioventricular nodal tachycardia, which was successfully treated by radiofrequency catheter ablation.

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  1. Division of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA

    Farooq A. Padder, Sabrina L. Wilbur, Bharat K. Kantharia, Alexander Lee, Fania Samuels & Steven P. Kutalek

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Padder, F.A., Wilbur, S.L., Kantharia, B.K. et al. Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia after Orthotopic Heart Transplantation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 3, 283–285 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009872330162

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