CORONARY SINUS STENOSIS AS A LATE COMPLICATION OF CATHETER ABLATION IN WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE-SYNDROME

This report describes a patient who developed stenosis of coronary sin us and cardiac veins five years after application of electric shock cu rrents to the posterior mitral annulus and posteroseptal region of the tricuspid annulus for ablation of a left posterior accessory pathway and a right posteroseptal accessory pathway, This is the first angiogr aphic documentation of coronary sinus stenosis as a late complication of electric ablation of accessory pathway. (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.