RESUMO
El aleteo auricular (AA) con conducción auriculoventricular 1:1 es una condición de presentación infrecuente en la práctica clínica, se da debido a diversos factores entre los cuales los más importantes son la presencia de vías accesorias concomitantes o uso de ciertos medicamentos antiarrítmicos, el AA con conducción 1 a 1 cuando se desarrolla constituye una emergencia médica ya que tiene una frecuencia cardíaca regular y presenta QRS ancho puede confundirse con una taquicardia ventricular. Cuando se presenta esta condición se produce frecuentemente inestabilidad hemodinámica del paciente, por lo que se debe hacer su diagnóstico y tratamiento a la brevedad posible. En el presente reporte presentamos el caso de un paciente previamente portador de marcapasos que desarrolla una taquicardia de QRS ancho regular, que se diagnostica finalmente como AA con conducción 1 a 1, tratado con fármacos antiarrítmicos en primera instancia, logrando disminuir la frecuencia cardíaca y posteriormente la reversión del mismo.
The atrial flutter (AF) with 1 to 1 atrio-ventricular (AV) conduction it's a rare medical condition secondary to several factors among which the most important are the association whit AV accessory pathways, or secondary to the use of some antiarrhythmic drugs. The AF with 1 to 1 AV conduction is a medical emergency and since it has a regular heart rate and presents wide QRS complex it can be confused with a ventricular tachycardia. When this condition occurs, it leads to hemodynamic instability of the patient, and that is why the diagnosis and treatment of this entity should be made as soon as possible. In the present report we present the case of a patient whit a previous pacemaker implantation who develops a regular wide QRS tachycardia, which is diagnosed as AF with 1 to 1 conduction and treated with antiarrhythmic drugs, first achieving a reduction in the heart rate and subsequently reaching its reversion
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Humanos , Masculino , Flutter Atrial , Taquicardia Ventricular , Frequência Cardíaca , Pacientes , Taquicardia , DiagnósticoRESUMO
AIMS: This study's aim is to compare the ability of two ECG criteria to differentiate ventricular (VT) from supraventricular tachycardia (SVT): Brugada et al. [horizontal plane (HP) leads] and Vereckei et al. [frontal plane (FP), specifically aVR lead], having electrophysiological study (EPS) as gold standard. After comparing, suggestions for better diagnosis of wide QRS-complex tachycardia (WCT) in emergency situations were made. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fifty-one consecutive patients with 12-lead ECG registered during EPS-induced regular WCT were selected. Each ECG was split into two parts: HP (V1-V6) and FP (D1-D3, aVR, aVL, and aVF), randomly distributed to three observers, blinded for EPS diagnosis and complementary ECG plane, resulting in total 306 ECG analyses. Observers followed the four steps of both algorithms, counting time-to-diagnosis. Global sensitivity, specificity, percentage of incorrect diagnoses, and step-by-step positive/negative likelihood ratios (+LR and -LR) were calculated. Kaplan-Meier curve was plotted for final time-to-diagnosis. Inter-observer agreement was assessed with kappa-statistic. Global sensitivity was similarly high in FP and HP algorithms (89.2 vs. 90.1%), and incorrect classifications were 27.4 vs. 24.7%. Forty-eight correct analyses by Vereckei criteria took 9.13 s to diagnose VT in the first step, showing that first step was fast, with high +LR, generating nearly conclusive pre- (72.6%) to post-test (98.0%) changes for VT probability. CONCLUSION: Both algorithms as a whole are similar for diagnosis of WTC; however, the first step of Vereckei (initial R in aVR) is a simple, reproducible, accurate, and fast tool to use. The negativity of this step requires a 'holistic' approach to distinguish VT from SVT.