Abstract
Reentrant ventricular outflow tract (OT) tachycardia is rare in patients with nonischemic heart disease. The mechanism of ventricular tachycardia (VT) arising from the region of the aortic sinus of Valsalva (ASOV) is usually focal, rather than reentrant. Consequently, less is known about reentrant circuits in the OT and the aortic sinuses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate existence of reentry circuits in these areas using entrainment mapping techniques. We performed electrophysiological study in 51 consecutive patients with idiopathic or nonischemic symptomatic VT arising from the OT. Six of these patients were found to have VT of reentrant mechanism with 8 VT morphologies. Entrainment mapping, electroanatomical mapping (in 2 patients), and radiofrequency catheter ablation were performed. Pacing entrained the VT at 93 sites, 52 of which were determined to be in the reentry circuit based on matching of the postpacing interval and VT cycle length. Of the reentry circuit sites, 6 were in the aortic sinus, 43 were below the aortic valve, and 3 were in the right OT below the pulmonary valve. Classification of reentry circuit sites identified 7 as exit, 1 as central-proximal, 19 as inner loop, and 25 as outer loop sites. Catheter ablation terminated VT at 4 of the 6 aortic sinus sites and 4 of the 46 OT sites (P = 0.0006). We definitively demonstrated involvement of the ASOV in OT reentrant tachycardia using entrainment mapping. It may be useful for successful VT ablation to identify reentry circuit localization.
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