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Non-fluoroscopic cardiac ablation of neonates with CHD*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2016

Amee M. Bigelow Open the ORCID record for Amee M. Bigelow [Opens in a new window] ,
Brandon S. Arnold ,
Gregory C. Padrutt  and
John M. Clark
Amee M. Bigelow*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Akron Children’s Hospital, The Heart Center, Akron, Ohio, United States of America
Brandon S. Arnold
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Akron Children’s Hospital, The Heart Center, Akron, Ohio, United States of America
Gregory C. Padrutt
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Akron Children’s Hospital, The Heart Center, Akron, Ohio, United States of America
John M. Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Akron Children’s Hospital, The Heart Center, Akron, Ohio, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: A. Bigelow, MD, Department of Cardiology, Akron Children’s Hospital, The Heart Center, One Perkins Square, Akron, OH 44308, United States of America. Tel: 330 543 1000; Fax: 330 543 3850; E-mail: abigelow@mcw.edu
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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.

Keywords

No fluoroscopyneonatalCHDablation
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Brief Report
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , March 2017 , pp. 592 - 596
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© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Footnotes

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A.B. presented this abstract at the 2014 Cardiostim Congress in Nice, France.

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