Incessant ventricular tachycardia early after acute myocardial infarction: efficacy of radiofrequency catheter ablation but not of optimal coronary revascularization.
Incessant ventricular tachycardia is an arrhythmia refractory to conventional antiarrhythmic treatment. We describe the case of 55-year-old man who presented incessant ventricular tachycardia in the early post-acute phase of myocardial infarction. Optimal coronary revascularization was not effective, but radiofrequency catheter ablation was able to eliminate the anatomic substrate and clinical arrhythmic recurrence.
Bonanno
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C
Department of Cardiology, S. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza.
Ometto
R
R
Finocchi
G
G
Rulfo
F
F
La Vecchia
L
L
Vincenzi
M
M
D017115:Catheter Ablation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors