Journal
PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 333-344Publisher
FUTURA PUBL CO
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.00333.x
Keywords
pre-Purkinje potential; Purkinje potential; ventricular tachycardia; reentry; entrainment; catheter ablation
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Although the mechanism of verapamil-sensitive idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia (ILVT) is usually reentry, the actual reentrant circuit is not clearly understood. This study examined the relationship between the Purkinje potential (PP) and a dull potential preceding PP (pre-PP) during ILVT to elucidate the roles of these potentials in the reentrant circuit of ILVT. Electrophysiological studies and radiofrequency catheter ablation were performed in ten patients (7 men, 3 women, mean age 29 years) who had an ILVT with a right bundle branch block configuration and left-axis deviation. Left ventricular endocardial mapping using an octapolar catheter and entrainment and resetting studies during VT was performed by pacing from the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) and each sire of the left ventricular mapping catheter. PP and pre-PP M ere recorded simultaneously during VT in all patients. The earliest PP during VT was recorded at the inferoposterior septum, and PP was activated bidirectionally toward the proximal (basal) and distal (apical) sites along the left posterior fascicle. in contrast, pre-PP was recorded at sites slightly proximal to the earliest PP recording site, and was activated toward the earliest PP sire. Pacing from RVOT confirmed manifest entrainment, and the stimulus to pre-PP interval was prolonged with a shorter pacing cycle length. Concealed entrainment was demonstrated by capture of the PPs of the left ventricular mapping catheter in six patients, and the postpacing interval at each PP site was equal to the tachycardia cycle length. The pre-PP was orthodromically activated from the proximal to the distal site during pacing. More rapid pacing also produced delay in activation from PP to indicating slow conduction in ILVT. Catherer ablation was performed at the pre-PP recording sire during VT, and sas successful in all patients. The reentrant circuit of ILVT could be constructed based on the pre-PP, PP, and slow conduction between the PP and pre-PP. Catheter ablation of ILVT was successful at the pre-PP recording site.
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