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Europace Advance Access published online on April 28, 2006
Europace, doi:10.1093/europace/eul037
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved
Received August 19, 2005
Accepted February 28, 2006

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Pacing site and bradycardia dependent retrograde conduction block over an atrioventricular accessory pathway

Rong Bai 1, Massimo Tritto 2, Luigi Di Biase 3, and Jorge A. Salerno-Uriarte 3 *

1 Department of Cardiovascular Science, Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi, University of Insubria-Varese, Varese, Italy; Department of Cardiology, Tong-Ji Hospital, Tong-Ji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
2 Department of Cardiology, Istituto Clinico Mater Domini, Castellanza, Varese, Italy
3 Department of Cardiovascular Science, Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi, University of Insubria-Varese, Varese, Italy

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Jorge A. Salerno-Uriarte, E-mail: jorge.salerno{at}ospedale.varese.it


  Abstract

Intermittent retrograde conduction over an accessory pathway (AP) is an uncommon phenomenon. We report a case of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in which retrograde conduction of the bypass tract was present only during right ventricular (RV) outflow tract and left ventricular pacing or during RV inflow tract pacing with a fast pacing rate (pacing site and bradycardia dependent conduction block). The interaction between different branches/fibres of the bypass tract might explain the mechanism of this phenomenon. The AP was successfully ablated at the lateral aspect of mitral valve annulus. It is suggested that careful evaluation by decremental ventricular stimulation should be applied from multiple sites both during baseline study and after apparent AP ablation in order to detect such uncommon cases of intermittent conduction.

Keywords: Atrioventricular accessory pathway; Catheter ablation; Pacing site dependent; Phase 4 block; Retrograde conduction.
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