Revista de Cardiología Intervencionista Acceso abierto

Abstracto

Catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias in pregnancy with limited fluoroscopy

Pham Nhu Hung, NguyenVan Dan, Nguyen XuanTuan, Pham Van Tung and Nguyen Quang Tuan

Objective: This study sought to evaluate the feasibility and safety of catheter ablation in pregnancy with limited fluoroscopy.

Method: A case-control retrospective study.

Results: Ten patients with tachycardia in pregnancy (age 26, 30 ± 4, 52 years; gestational age 26, 90 ± 2, 88 weeks) successfully underwent radiofrequency catheter ablation procedures with limited fluoroscopy. Type of tachycardia consisted of 2 patients with atrial tachycardia; 2 patients with ventricular tachycardia; 4 patients with atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia; 2 patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. Procedure time, fluoroscopy time, total dose area product were 66, 50 ± 19, 86 minutes; 118, 80 ± 64, 38 seconds; 0, 73 ± 0, 64 Gy-cm2 respectively. There were not any complications during and after procedures. All pregnancy normally delivered healthy babies.

Conclusion: Catheter ablation with limited fluoroscopy can be performed safely and with good outcomes in pregnancy.