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Successful Surgical Ablation of Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia Associated with Mitral Valve Prolapse Guided by a Multielectrode Basket Catheter
Author(s) -
VAN DESSEL PASCAL F.,
VAN HEMEL NORBERT M.,
VAN SWIETEN HENRI A.,
DE BAKKER JACQUES M.,
JESSURUN EMILE R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.01029.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , mitral valve prolapse , ventricular tachycardia , catheter ablation , ablation , percutaneous , catheter , mitral valve , atrial tachycardia , surgery
VAN DESSEL, P.F., et al. : Successful Surgical Ablation of Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia Associated with Mitral Valve Prolapse Guided by a Multielectrode Basket Catheter. Ventricular tachycardia occurs frequently in patients with mitral valve prolapse. If antiarrhythmic drug therapy fails or mitral valve surgery is indicated, concomitant arrhythmia surgery may be considered. This report describes the first clinical use of an atrial transseptally inserted multielectrode basket catheter, placed across the mitral valve, to guide intraoperative mapping and ablation of monomorphic sustained ventricular tachycardia in association with mitral valve prolapse. Endocardial covering and signal quality of this percutaneous mapping catheter were of good quality, allowing an accurate localization of the site of origin of the tachycardia.