Abstract
Differentiating atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) from septal orthodromic reentrant tachycardia (ORT(Septal)) is challenging in nonsustained tachycardia. When sustained, the postpacing interval minus tachycardia cycle length following entrainment (PPI(Entrainment) - TCL) and stimulation to atrial interval minus ventriculoatrial interval (Stim-A(Entrainment) - VA) are utilized. We hypothesized that the first tachycardia cycle after tachycardia induction with right ventricular apical extrastimulation would yield comparable information to entrainment, precluding the need for sustained tachycardia. Twenty-four patients with AVNRT (age 47 ± 18 years), 19 with ORT(Septal) (age 42 ± 17 years), and 15 with ORT over a left lateral accessory pathway (ORT(Left)) (age 41 ± 16 years) were included. The ventricular extrastimulus to atrial depolarization at tachycardia initiation (Stim-A(Initiation)) and tachycardia VA interval were measured to establish the Stim-A(Initiation) minus VA interval (Stim-A(Initiation) - VA). The ventricular extrastimulus to the subsequent right ventricular apical depolarization (postpacing interval at initiation, PPI(Initiation)) was utilized to obtain the PPI(Initiation) minus TCL (PPI(Initiation) - TCL). The AH interval associated with the PPI(Initiation) minus the AH in tachycardia was utilized to establish a corrected PPI(Initiation) minus TCL (cPPI(Initiation) - TCL). The intervals after tachycardia initiation were longer for AVNRT than for ORT: mean PPI(Initiation) - TCL (193 ± 44 vs 91 ± 73; P <.001), cPPI(Initiation) - TCL (174 ± 44 ms vs 88 ± 50 ms; P <.001), and Stim-A(Initiation) - VA (161 ± 45 ms vs 69 ± 53 ms; P <.001). The correlation coefficient for Stim-A(Initiation) minus VA against Stim-A(Entrainment) minus VA was 0.79 and for cPPI(Initiation) minus TCL against PPI(Entrainment) minus TCL was 0.71. cPPI(Initiation) minus TCL <115 ms or Stim-A(Initiation) - VA <85 ms was observed only in ORT. The converse was observed in AVNRT but also in ORT(Septal) over decremental accessory pathways and ORT(Left). Stim-A(Initiation) - VA < 85 ms or cPPI(Initiation) - TCL < 115 ms excludes AVNRT.
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