Electrophysiologc Study and Ablation in Children, the State of the Art

Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Interventional electrophysiology (EP) procedures are approved for treating some types of arrhythmia. The method is available and routine for adult patients in numerous cardiology centers worldwide. For children, however, interventional EP procedures are more restricted both because of the technique and the nature of pediatric arrhythmias. So, pediatric EP procedures only done in few tertiary centers worldwide.
In Iran, since 2010 we started the first national academic center for pediatric arrhythmia. Many hundred pediatric patients including infants and neonates were managed and treated in Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center. Of them several cases had complex cardiac lesions and some had rare types of arrhythmia. We had several reports and publications based on our experience in medical literature. Hereby I will talk about the tips, tricks, and results of pediatric EP procedures