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Presentation

A 38-year-old female patient is referred for paroxysmal episodes of recurrent palpitations (2-3 attacks per week), since 2 years. She does not have neither past medical history nor structural heart disease, excluded by echocardiography. The 24-hour Holter recorded several episodes of narrow QRS tachycardia (mean cycle length 420 ms). From the top, the leads presented are leads I, V1 and II.

A)

 

B)

1) Atrial tachycardia with first degree atrioventricular block

2) An accessory pathway-mediated tachycardia

3) Inappropriate sinus tachycardia with first degree atrioventricular block

4) Sequential anterograde conduction through the slow pathway explaining the long PR interval and then beginning of a slow-fast atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (on Panel B)

5) Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia with alternation of 1 :1 conduction, aberrancy on one bundle and 2 :1 infra-Hissian block

 

Sok-Sithikun Bun,  Karim Hasni

Cardiology Department,

Princess Grace Hospital, MONACO