Surgical therapy for arrhythmogenic right ventricular adiposis.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular adiposis, formerly dysplasia, was identified when the first patients underwent map-guided surgery for treatment of their ventricular tachycardia. We report our experience with 12 patients operated on using a conservative approach between 1973 and 1981 (Paris). Subsequently, we used a more comprehensive approach in five patients (London, Canada); the right ventricular free wall disconnection was used to confine all potential right ventricular tachycardias within the excluded right ventricular wall.
Guiraudon
G M
GM
Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Klein
G J
GJ
Sharma
A D
AD
Yee
R
R
Guiraudon
C M
CM
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000601:surgery; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans