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Wiley, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 10(15), p. 1212-1215

DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2004.04036.x

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Dual Conduction in a Mahaim Fiber

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Abstract

The case of an 8-year-old girl with incessant nonsustained left bundle branch block-like tachycardia refractory to antiarrhythmic drug therapy is reported. Electrophysiologic study revealed the presence of a right-sided accessory atriofascicular pathway. Episodes of nonsustained tachycardia were found to be based upon a dual response in AV conduction over the Mahaim fiber to one P wave. No reentrant tachycardia could be induced. The arrhythmia was cured by catheter ablation targeting a Mahaim potential at the right lateral tricuspid annulus. The findings can be explained by longitudinal dissociation in a single Mahaim fiber, a fiber distally diverging into two fibers with different conduction times, or (less likely) two closely located Mahaim fibers with different conduction times.