title: Contribution of body surface mapping to clinical outcome after surgical ablation of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia.
abstract: This article investigates the influence of body surface mapping on outcome of ventricular antiarrhythmic surgery. Preoperative mapping is advocated to optimize map-guided antiarrhythmic surgery of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia. We sequentially analyzed the results of catheter activation sequence mapping, body surface mapping, and intraoperative multielectrode mapping in 54 patients and made a comparison with 30 control patients (group B) in whom catheter activation sequence mapping was omitted. Endpoints were actuarial survival, freedom of arrhythmia, and comparability of the localisation of sites of ventricular tachycardia origin. A total of 128 morphologically different monomorphic sustained ventricular tachycardias were mapped in group A. In group A, 87 ventricular tachycardias were mapped preoperatively with body surface mapping and 30 ventricular tachycardias with catheter activation sequence mapping. In 19 of 24 ventricular tachycardias (79%) that were localized with both mapping methods the ventricular tachycardia exit site was similar. In-hospital death was 1 of 85 (1.2%). Actuarial freedom from ventricular arrhythmias at 4-year follow-up was 74.1 +/- 6.0% in group A vs. 90.0+/-5.5% in group B (P =.10). In group A 14 of 54 patients died (29.6%), whereas 4 of 30 patients (13.3%) died in group B (P =.09). Arrhythmia freedom and survival is as good in patients mapped with body surface mapping only as in patients mapped with body surface mapping and catheter activation sequence mapping.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. p.van.dessel@deskart.nl
authors.forename: Pascal F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: van Dessel
authors.forename: Norbert M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: van Hemel
authors.forename: Arne Sippens
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Groenewegen
authors.forename: Jacques M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: de Bakker
authors.forename: André C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Linnebank
authors.forename: Jo J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Defauw
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018780:Body Surface Potential Mapping; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D022062:Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome