Abstract
A 53-year-old man with a ventricular tachycardia (VT) electrical storm during the chronic phase of an extensive anteroseptal myocardial infarction underwent electrophysiologic testing and catheter ablation. An electroanatomical map during 7 induced macroreentrant VTs demonstrated multiple centrifugal endocardial activations from sites that were located at the circumferential border zone of a large scar area. Interestingly, during the radiofrequency catheter ablation of 4 of the VTs, the elimination of the substrate of the previous VTs converted one VT to another probably because those VTs might have shared a central common pathway of the macroreentrant circuit with different exits.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 160-164 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Electrocardiology |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Centrifugal endocardial activation
- Myocardial infarction
- Radiofrequency catheter ablation
- Scar border zone
- Ventricular tachycardia