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Ablation of Post‐Myocardial Infarction Focal Ventricular Tachycardia
Author(s) -
MALUSKI ALEXANDRE,
LATCU DECEBAL G.,
RICARD PHILLIPE,
SAOUDI NADIR
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02679.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ventricular tachycardia , myocardial infarction , ablation , fibrosis , infarction , tachycardia , catheter ablation , mechanism (biology) , philosophy , epistemology
In the chronic phase of myocardial infarction, the presence of scar areas allows the development of macro‐reentries which become the most frequent mechanism underlying ventricular tachycardia (VT). A focal mechanism has been already described in the presence of scar in animal models or in humans but only during surgery. We report a case of focal automatic VT arising from postinfarction scar fibrosis, successfully mapped and ablated during an electro‐physiological procedure. (PACE 2010; 904–906)