VATS cardiac sympathetic denervation for ventricular arrhythmias: initial experience in a tertiary care centre.

ABSTRACT: Cardiac sympathetic denervation (CSD) is a useful therapeutic option for patients with ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) refractory to anti-arrhythmic agents and/or catheter ablation. However, the experience is mostly limited to non-structural heart disease in paediatric patients. The advent of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with its reduced morbidity has encouraged the use of VATS CSD in patients with structural heart disease. In this series, we report the surgical and cardiac outcomes of VATS-guided CSD in four patients who presented with electrical storm in the setting of different structural cardiomyopathies. Four patients underwent VATS-guided CSD at our centre during the period 2019-2021 after failure of conventional medical and/or ablative treatment for the management of re

SUBMITTER: Mittal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9424384 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature