title: Successful Ablation of Single Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia Arising from Peri-Aortic Scar in a Patient with an Apparently Normal Heart.
abstract: Peri-aortic region is one of the arrhythmogenic foci associated not only with idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT), but also scar-related VT in patients with an apparently normal heart.[1-3] A recent study reported that the patients with scar-related VT were significantly older, had a frequent history of hypertension, and inducibility of multiple monomorphic VTs compared to the patients with idiopathic VT.[2] However, whether these clinical features are the causes of the peri-aortic scar or innocent by-standers, remain uncertain. Here, we present a relatively young normotensive patient with a peri-aortic scar and emphasize the importance of cardiac MRI to detect latent arrhthmogenic substrates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Hiro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hindricks
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Arash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arya
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sommer