Ventricular tachycardia ablation

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sara Zand, M.D.[2] Rim Halaby, M.D. [3]

Overview

Catheter ablation is useful for treating ventricular arrhythmia when drugs are ineffective. Monomorphic VT is a suitable target for ablation. Ablation can be used for polymorphic VT or VF if an initiating PVC focus or substrate is accessible.

Catheter ablation

Ventricular arrhythmia in structurally normal heart

Scar related ventricular arrhythmia

References

  1. Aliot, Etienne M.; Stevenson, William G.; Almendral-Garrote, Jesus Ma; Bogun, Frank; Calkins, C. Hugh; Delacretaz, Etienne; Della Bella, Paolo; Hindricks, Gerhard; Jaïs, Pierre; Josephson, Mark E.; Kautzner, Josef; Kay, G. Neal; Kuck, Karl-Heinz; Lerman, Bruce B.; Marchlinski, Francis; Reddy, Vivek; Schalij, Martin-Jan; Schilling, Richard; Soejima, Kyoko; Wilber, David (2009). "EHRA/HRS Expert Consensus on Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias". Heart Rhythm. 6 (6): 886–933. doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.04.030. ISSN 1547-5271.

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