Successful catheter ablation of persistent electrical storm late post myocardial infarction by targeting purkinje arborization triggers.
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.
Thoppil
Paul S
PS
Division of Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, CARE Hospitals and CARE Foundation, Hyderabad, India.
Rao
B Hygriv
BH
Jaishankar
S
S
Narasimhan
Calambur
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