Predictors of early and late recurrence of atrioventricular accessory pathway conduction after apparently successful radiofrequency catheter ablation

Abstract The correlation between electrophysiologic parameters and recurrence in 239 patients who underwent successful catheter ablation for an accessory pathway mediated tachycardia was analysed. Pathway conduction recurred in 15 patients (6.3%) after a mean follow-up of 7.3 months. Recurrence was most common in patients with right free wall pathways (17.1%). Accessory pathway conduction resumed in 18.9% of patients with decremental ventriculo-atrial (VA) conduction post-ablation compared with those patients without VA conduction (3.4%) ( P P