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Tachycardia, Reciprocating

MedGen UID:
116606
•Concept ID:
C0242514
•
Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: Reciprocal Tachycardia; Reciprocal Tachycardias; Reciprocating Tachycardia; Reciprocating Tachycardias; Tachycardia, Reciprocal; Tachycardias, Reciprocal; Tachycardias, Reciprocating

Definition

Abnormally rapid heartbeats caused by reentrant conduction over the accessory pathways between the HEART ATRIA and the HEART VENTRICLES. The impulse can also travel in the reverse direction, as in some cases, atrial impulses travel to the ventricles over the accessory pathways and back to the atria over the BUNDLE OF HIS and the ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE. [from MeSH]

Professional guidelines

PubMed

2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, Calkins H, Conti JB, Deal BJ, Estes NA 3rd, Field ME, Goldberger ZD, Hammill SC, Indik JH, Lindsay BD, Olshansky B, Russo AM, Shen WK, Tracy CM, Al-Khatib SM; Evidence Review Committee Chair‡
Circulation 2016 Apr 5;133(14):e506-74. Epub 2015 Sep 23 doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000311. PMID: 26399663
2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, Calkins H, Conti JB, Deal BJ, Estes NA 3rd, Field ME, Goldberger ZD, Hammill SC, Indik JH, Lindsay BD, Olshansky B, Russo AM, Shen WK, Tracy CM, Al-Khatib SM; Evidence Review Committee Chair‡
Circulation 2016 Apr 5;133(14):e471-505. Epub 2015 Sep 23 doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000310. PMID: 26399662
Diagnosis and Management of Common Types of Supraventricular Tachycardia.
Helton MR
Am Fam Physician 2015 Nov 1;92(9):793-800. PMID: 26554472

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Analyses of the Mode of Termination During Diagnostic Ventricular Pacing to Differentiate the Mechanisms of Supraventricular Tachycardias.
Maruyama M, Uetake S, Miyauchi Y, Seino Y, Shimizu W
JACC Clin Electrophysiol 2017 Nov;3(11):1252-1261. Epub 2017 Sep 13 doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2017.05.014. PMID: 29759621
Ventriculoatrial Intervals ≤70 ms in Orthodromic Atrioventricular Reciprocating Tachycardia.
Nagashima K, Watanabe I, Okumura Y, Kaneko Y, Sonoda K, Kogawa R, Sasaki N, Iso K, Takahashi K, Kurokawa S, Nakai T, Ohkubo K, Hirayama A
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2016 Oct;39(10):1108-1115. Epub 2016 Sep 23 doi: 10.1111/pace.12928. PMID: 27477208
Determining the Site of Accessory Pathways in Orthodromic Reciprocating Tachycardia by Using the Response to Right Ventricular Pacing.
Boonyapisit W, Methavigul K, Krittayaphong R, Sriratanasathavorn C, Pumprueg S, Suwanagool A, Winijkul A, Jongnarangsin K
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2016 Feb;39(2):115-21. Epub 2015 Nov 19 doi: 10.1111/pace.12769. PMID: 26496657
Principles of cardiac electric propagation and their implications for re-entrant arrhythmias.
Spector P
Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2013 Jun;6(3):655-61. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000311. PMID: 23778249
Risk factors of adverse presentation as the first arrhythmia in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Brembilla-Perrot B, Tatar C, Suty-Selton C
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2010 Sep;33(9):1074-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02782.x. PMID: 20487358

Diagnosis

Ventriculoatrial Intervals ≤70 ms in Orthodromic Atrioventricular Reciprocating Tachycardia.
Nagashima K, Watanabe I, Okumura Y, Kaneko Y, Sonoda K, Kogawa R, Sasaki N, Iso K, Takahashi K, Kurokawa S, Nakai T, Ohkubo K, Hirayama A
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2016 Oct;39(10):1108-1115. Epub 2016 Sep 23 doi: 10.1111/pace.12928. PMID: 27477208
2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, Calkins H, Conti JB, Deal BJ, Estes NA 3rd, Field ME, Goldberger ZD, Hammill SC, Indik JH, Lindsay BD, Olshansky B, Russo AM, Shen WK, Tracy CM, Al-Khatib SM; Evidence Review Committee Chair‡
Circulation 2016 Apr 5;133(14):e506-74. Epub 2015 Sep 23 doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000311. PMID: 26399663
2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, Calkins H, Conti JB, Deal BJ, Estes NA 3rd, Field ME, Goldberger ZD, Hammill SC, Indik JH, Lindsay BD, Olshansky B, Russo AM, Shen WK, Tracy CM, Al-Khatib SM; Evidence Review Committee Chair‡
Circulation 2016 Apr 5;133(14):e471-505. Epub 2015 Sep 23 doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000310. PMID: 26399662
A case for ambidextrous doctors.
Duthoit G, Frank R, Aouate P, Lacotte J, Hidden-Lucet F
Europace 2010 Nov;12(11):1645-7. Epub 2010 Aug 2 doi: 10.1093/europace/euq293. PMID: 20682555
The clinical utility of entrainment pacing.
Deo R, Berger R
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2009 Apr;20(4):466-70. Epub 2009 Jan 16 doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01409.x. PMID: 19207769

Therapy

Recurrent hypoglycaemia in a toddler on β-blocker therapy.
Pépin V, Gagné N, Rottembourg D
Cardiol Young 2018 Mar;28(3):511-513. Epub 2018 Jan 8 doi: 10.1017/S1047951117002724. PMID: 29306335
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Discharge in a Patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy: What Is the Mechanism?
Docekal J, Singh DK
Card Electrophysiol Clin 2016 Mar;8(1):173-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ccep.2015.10.023. PMID: 26920189
2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, Calkins H, Conti JB, Deal BJ, Estes NA 3rd, Field ME, Goldberger ZD, Hammill SC, Indik JH, Lindsay BD, Olshansky B, Russo AM, Shen WK, Tracy CM, Al-Khatib SM; Evidence Review Committee Chair‡
Circulation 2016 Apr 5;133(14):e506-74. Epub 2015 Sep 23 doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000311. PMID: 26399663
2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, Calkins H, Conti JB, Deal BJ, Estes NA 3rd, Field ME, Goldberger ZD, Hammill SC, Indik JH, Lindsay BD, Olshansky B, Russo AM, Shen WK, Tracy CM, Al-Khatib SM; Evidence Review Committee Chair‡
Circulation 2016 Apr 5;133(14):e471-505. Epub 2015 Sep 23 doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000310. PMID: 26399662
Targeting tachycardia: diagnostic tips and tools.
Kireyev D, Fernandez SF, Gupta V, Arkhipov MV, Paris JA
J Fam Pract 2012 May;61(5):258-63. PMID: 22577628

Prognosis

Analyses of the Mode of Termination During Diagnostic Ventricular Pacing to Differentiate the Mechanisms of Supraventricular Tachycardias.
Maruyama M, Uetake S, Miyauchi Y, Seino Y, Shimizu W
JACC Clin Electrophysiol 2017 Nov;3(11):1252-1261. Epub 2017 Sep 13 doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2017.05.014. PMID: 29759621
Palpitations in a 46-year-old man.
Kumar V, Eltelbany M, Fonbah W
Heart 2015 Oct;101(19):1561, 1601. Epub 2015 Jun 9 doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307771. PMID: 26060118
Principles of cardiac electric propagation and their implications for re-entrant arrhythmias.
Spector P
Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2013 Jun;6(3):655-61. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000311. PMID: 23778249
Clinical validation and comparison of alternative methods for evaluation of entrainment mapping.
Derejko P, Szumowski ŁJ, Sanders P, Dimitri H, Kuklik P, Przybylski A, Urbanek P, Szufladowicz E, Bodalski R, Sacher F, Haïssaguerre M, Walczak F
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2009 Jul;20(7):741-8. Epub 2009 Feb 2 doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01425.x. PMID: 19207782
The clinical utility of entrainment pacing.
Deo R, Berger R
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2009 Apr;20(4):466-70. Epub 2009 Jan 16 doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01409.x. PMID: 19207769

Clinical prediction guides

Analyses of the Mode of Termination During Diagnostic Ventricular Pacing to Differentiate the Mechanisms of Supraventricular Tachycardias.
Maruyama M, Uetake S, Miyauchi Y, Seino Y, Shimizu W
JACC Clin Electrophysiol 2017 Nov;3(11):1252-1261. Epub 2017 Sep 13 doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2017.05.014. PMID: 29759621
Ventriculoatrial Intervals ≤70 ms in Orthodromic Atrioventricular Reciprocating Tachycardia.
Nagashima K, Watanabe I, Okumura Y, Kaneko Y, Sonoda K, Kogawa R, Sasaki N, Iso K, Takahashi K, Kurokawa S, Nakai T, Ohkubo K, Hirayama A
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2016 Oct;39(10):1108-1115. Epub 2016 Sep 23 doi: 10.1111/pace.12928. PMID: 27477208
Palpitations in a 46-year-old man.
Kumar V, Eltelbany M, Fonbah W
Heart 2015 Oct;101(19):1561, 1601. Epub 2015 Jun 9 doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307771. PMID: 26060118
Clinical validation and comparison of alternative methods for evaluation of entrainment mapping.
Derejko P, Szumowski ŁJ, Sanders P, Dimitri H, Kuklik P, Przybylski A, Urbanek P, Szufladowicz E, Bodalski R, Sacher F, Haïssaguerre M, Walczak F
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2009 Jul;20(7):741-8. Epub 2009 Feb 2 doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01425.x. PMID: 19207782
The clinical utility of entrainment pacing.
Deo R, Berger R
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2009 Apr;20(4):466-70. Epub 2009 Jan 16 doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01409.x. PMID: 19207769

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