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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-3-6
pubmed:abstractText
Sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) after valve surgery represents a clinical entity with different tachycardia mechanisms. This case report describes an incessant VT after tricuspid and aortic valve replacement that did not respond to antiarrhythmic drug treatment. The tachycardia exhibited VA block and a right bundle branch block pattern with left-axis deviation, suggesting ventricular excitation via the left posterior fascicle. The electrophysiological study was limited by the prosthetic tricuspid and aortic valve replacement, therefore a transseptal approach was necessary to obtain access to the ventricular myocardium. Radiofrequency catheter ablation was performed in the proximal left bundle or distal His region with termination of the incessant VT followed by complete AV block. After pacemaker implantation using a transvenous right atrial and an epicardial ventricular lead, no VT reoccurrence could be documented.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0147-8389
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
105-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Radiofrequency catheter ablation of an incessant ventricular tachycardia following valve surgery.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine-Cardiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany. th.lewalter@uni-bonn.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports