A case of an infant with bundle branch reentrant ventricular tachycardia

Abstract

Catheter ablation of the right bundle branch was performed on an 11-month-old infant for the treatment of drug-resistant bundle branch reentrant ventricular tachycardia. The occurrence of right bundle branch block could not be used as an endpoint of treatment because the patient had presented with incomplete right bundle branch block pattern during sinus rhythm. We performed ablation of the right bundle branch and utilized changes of duration and morphology of the QRS complex as indicators. Eight years have passed with no development of any atrioventricular block or tachycardia episode.

Keywords

• Bundle branch reentrant ventricular tachycardia
• Catheter ablation
• Right bundle branch block
• Acute myocarditis