Successful surgical ablation of reentrant ventricular tachycardia caused by myocardial fibroma.
We successfully removed a fibroma of the left ventricle in a 13-year-old boy. The tumor had caused recurrent ventricular tachycardia, which was resistant to antiarrhythmic drugs. Preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiological studies led to a diagnosis of reentrant ventricular tachycardia. After surgical excision of the tumor, the ventricular tachycardia stopped completely and until now, 1 year after the operation, no antiarrhythmic drugs have been required.
D000293:Adolescent; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*