title: Successful surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardia that induced left ventricular aneurysm in 12-year-old boy.
abstract: A surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) that induced a congenital left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) in a 12-year-old boy was performed. The VT disappeared after epicardial cryoablation and a reinforcement of LVA with a composite patch. Epicardial cryoablation, based on an intraoperative electrophysiologic study (EPS), is effective in treating VT resistant to antiarrhythmia drugs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital, Toyama, Japan. htsukui@jasmine.ocn.ne.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsukui
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hoshino
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishiya
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Usuda
mesh_terms: D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000209:etiology*