Concomitant treatment of sustained ventricular tachycardia and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with transcoronary ethanol ablation: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The recommended treatment for recurrent ventricular tachycardia in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that is not amenable to defibrillator implantation due to shock burden is radiofrequency ablation. In patients with deeply intramural foci of ventricular tachycardia, traditional unipolar ablation has a lower probability of success.

Case summary

A 66-year-old Caucasian man was admitted with ventricular tachycardia, which recurred despite antiarrhythmic drugs. On cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, he was discovered to have septal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which was not significant on echocardiogram. The focus of ventricular tachycardia was suspected to be buried deeply within the hypertrophic segment as localized by late gadolinium enhancement. The patie

SUBMITTER: Xia ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10794818 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature