Patient characteristics, procedure details including catheter devices, and complications of catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia: a nationwide observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nationwide data are insufficient with respect to the characteristics of patients undergoing ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation, complications of VT ablation, and procedure details including catheter devices used during VT ablation. The present study was performed to describe the patient characteristics, procedure details including catheter devices, and in-hospital complications of catheter ablation for VT using a national inpatient database.

Methods

We used the Diagnosis Procedure Combination database, a national Japanese inpatient database, to identify patients who underwent VT ablation from July 2010 to March 2017. We examined patients' age, gender, baseline diseases, comorbid conditions, admission status, catheter devices and drugs used, and in-hospital comp

SUBMITTER: Kitamura T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7279962 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature