title: Successful ablation of idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia in an adult patient during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment.
abstract: Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) is usually a benign arrhythmia with good prognosis that can be managed with antiarrhythmic agents and is often cured using ablation. There is, however, a malignant potential in a subset of patients with idiopathic VT as was the case for our patient whom we discuss in this case report. After a review of the medical literature, and to our knowledge, this is the first case of a successful idiopathic VT ablation in an adult while extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was being used.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rizkallah
authors.forename: Seeger
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tischenko
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zieroth
authors.forename: Darren H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Freed
authors.forename: Aliasghar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khadem
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*