title: Successful catheter ablation of persistent electrical storm late post myocardial infarction by targeting purkinje arborization triggers.
abstract: Drug refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) occurring as a storm after acute myocardial infarction has grave prognosis. We report a case of a middle-aged lady who presented with drug refractory VT that lead to persistent electrical storm two weeks after an anterior wall myocardial infarction. She underwent a successful catheter ablation of VT followed a few days later by implantation of an AICD. Catheter ablation of the VT could control the persistent electrical storm and the patient was free from a recurrence of VT at three month follow up.
authors.affiliation: Division of Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, CARE Hospitals and CARE Foundation, Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Thoppil
authors.forename: B Hygriv
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jaishankar
authors.forename: Calambur
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Narasimhan