From Signals to Colours: A Case-based Atlas of Electroanatomic Mapping in Complex Atrial Arrhythmias

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Electroanatomic Mapping in Evaluation of Complex Atrial Arrhythmias....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Focal Atrial Tachycardia in the Right Atrium in a Postsurgical Patient: Rare but Possible....Pages 15-20
Focal Atrial Tachycardia in an Enlarged Right Antrium after Rastelli’s Operation: Ambiguous Mapping Data in Confict with the Orthodoxies....Pages 21-26
Focal Atrial Tachycardia Associated with a Macroreentrant Tachycardia: Two Arrhythmias with Different Mechanisms and Similar Morphologies in a Non-surgical Left Atrium with Electrically Silent Areas....Pages 27-35
Focal Atrial Tachycardia From the Right Superior Pulmonary Vein with Irregular Cycle and P Wave Morphology: the Missing Link in the Chain Connecting Organized and Disorganized Atrial Arrhythmias?....Pages 37-43
Focal Atrial Tachycardia from the Right Superior Pulmonary Vein with Stable P Wave Morphology and Cycle Length: the Problem of Discriminating between a Right and Left Origin....Pages 45-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Counter-clockwise Atrial Flutter in the Donor’s Right Atrium After Heart Transplantation: a Peculiar Example of Single-Loop Right Atrial Reentry....Pages 59-64
Single-loop Macroreentry in the Left Atrium in an “Atrial Cardiomyopathy”: Discrimination between Right and Left Circuits and the Paradox of Proximal-to-distal Coronary Sinus Activation in a Left-sided Arrhythmia....Pages 65-71
Double-loop Reentry in the Right Atrium with a Shared Mid-Diastolic Isthmus in a Postsurgical Patient: Identifying and Targeting the Shared Isthmus....Pages 73-78
Double-loop Reentry in the Left Atrium with a Shared Mid-Diastolic Isthmus in a Non-surgical Patient with Left Atrial Scarring: a More Common than Expected Arrhythmia?....Pages 79-86
Macroreentrant Atrial Tachycardia in a Left Atrium With a Prosthetic Mitral Valve (Example 1): a Reentrant Circuit Confined to the Left Atrial Roof and the Need for Reconstruction of the Entire Reentrant Circuit....Pages 87-93
Macroreentrant Atrial Tachycardia in a Left Atrium With a Prosthetic Mitral Valve (Example 2): the Problem of Minimal Amplitude Potentials....Pages 95-102
Counter-clockwise Isthmus-Dependent Peritricuspid Reentry with an Atypical Electrocardiographic Pattern: what Should Be Complex is not Always Actually Complex....Pages 103-109
Recurrence of Typical Counter-clockwise Atrial Flutter in a Postsurgical Patient: an Unexpected Trap....Pages 111-117
Two Macroreentrant Tachycardias in a Patient after Fontan Surgery: the Difference between “Isthmic” and “Rotational” Atrial Macroreentry....Pages 119-127
Organised Atrial Arrhythmias after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in the Left Atrium (Example 1): an Arrhythmogenic Incomplete Linear Lesion with Modified Left-to-right Atrial Propagation....Pages 129-135
Organised Atrial Arrhythmias after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in the Left Atrium (Example 2): Association of Multiple Potentially Pro-arrhythmogenic Factors Resulting in a Tachycardia with a Longer Cycle Length....Pages 137-143
Organised Atrial Arrhythmias after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in the Left Atrium (Example 3): do Lesions in the Left Atrium Have a Mid-term Evolution?....Pages 145-150
A Non-clinical Macroreentrant Right Atrial Tachycardia with Two Independent Loops: the Exception to the Rule of a Shared Mid-diastolic Isthmus in Double-loop Reentry....Pages 151-156
A Peculiar Clockwise Peritricuspid Atrial Flutter: the Exception to the Rule of Aiming at the Mid-diastolic Isthmus....Pages 157-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Non-inducible Atrial Flutter in a Patient with Prior Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease (Example 1): Ablation Based on Substrate Mapping in Sinus Rhythm....Pages 165-172
Non-inducible Atrial Flutter in a Patient with Prior Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease (Example 2): Substrate Mapping in Sinus Rhythm with the Help of Imaging Integration....Pages 173-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Isolated Congenital Unilateral Absence of the Right Pulmonary Artery and Left Atrial Flutter: Are they Related?....Pages 183-187
Left Atrial Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in a Patient with Dextrocardia: the Complexities of an Inverted Anatomy....Pages 189-191
Uncommon Anatomy of the Pulmonary Veins (Example 1): Common Trunk of the Inferior Pulmonary Veins....Pages 193-195
Uncommon Anatomy of the Pulmonary Veins (Example 2): the “Roof Pulmonary Vein”....Pages 197-201