Zeitschrift für Kardiologie
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Case Reports
[Atrial tachycardia, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation: curative therapy by focal ablation in a pulmonary vein].
We describe the case of a 50-year-old woman with the clinical diagnosis of cardiomyopathy associated with supraventricular tachycardia refractory to pharmacological treatment. The totally irregular tachyarrhythmia was the result of different episodes of atrial tachycardia, atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation that could be identified in the surface ECG. ⋯ Ablation of this focus represented a curative antiarrhythmic therapy also restoring a normalized ventricular function. Thus, an ablation of the AV node with consecutive pacemaker implantation could be prevented.