title: [The complex origin of ventricular tachycardia after the total correction of tetralogy of Fallot].
abstract: Two patients underwent surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardia after repair of tetralogy of Fallot. Both patients had right bundle branch block, moderate pulmonary valve incompetence and right ventricular dilatation, and were refractory to electrophysiologically guided drug therapy. Both patients underwent intraoperative epicardial mapping, which located the arrhythmogenic focus on the right ventricular outflow tract, on the border of the previous ventriculotomy. In one patient removal of the previous scar and endocardial cryoablation was successful in ablating the arrhythmia. In the other, the same procedure was only temporarily effective. VT recurred and was subsequently identified at the superior border of the closed ventricular septal defect. It was ablated by means of transcatheter radiofrequency. While VT from foci located on the right ventricular free wall can be easily detected and ablated, septal origin of VT requires extensive preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiological evaluation and may necessitate combined surgical and transcatheter procedures.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Cardiochirurgia, Università degli Studi di Pavia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ressia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Graffigna
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Salerno-Uriarte
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Viganò
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D003452:Cryosurgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Origine complessa della tachicardia ventricolare dopo correzione totale di tetralogia di Fallot.