Publication Date
6-1-2020
Journal
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-18-6615
PMID
32997773
Publication Date(s)
June 2020
Language
English
PMCID
PMC7529068
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
9-30-2020
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-Print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Body Surface Potential Mapping, Catheter Ablation, Endocardium, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Aneurysm, Heart Ventricles, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction, Retrospective Studies, Tachycardia, Ventricular
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
This retrospective study evaluated the feasibility of surgical endoepicardial linear ablation for ventricular tachycardia in patients with postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm. Sixty-four patients with multivessel coronary artery disease and left ventricular aneurysm but no mural thrombosis of the aneurysm or valve disease were treated at our institution from March 2012 through July 2015. All underwent off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and left ventricular aneurysm repair by linear plication. Twenty-three patients (35.9%) had ventricular tachycardia and underwent surgical endoepicardial linear ablation on the beating heart guided by epicardial substrate mapping with the Carto 3 system. The remaining 41 patients (64.1%) composed the no-ablation group. The effectiveness of surgical linear ablation in the ablation group was evaluated. Safety and clinical outcomes were evaluated and compared between the groups. The ventricular tachycardia recurrence rate in the ablation group was 17.4% in the immediate postoperative period and 23.8% at last follow-up (39 ± 21 mo). Early (