Three dimensional epicardial mapping and ablation of recurrent non-ischaemic ventricular tachycardia
Aman Makhija1, Ajit Thachil, B Hygriv Rao
1Fellow Electrophysiology, CARE Hospitals, Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India.
Indian Heart Journal
|June 6, 2012
Abstract:
Radiofrequency ablation is a therapeutic option for recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT) in both ischaemic and non-ischaemic subsets. Usually this is attempted by mapping endocardially; however, in some situations epicardial approach may be needed to access the VT circuit. We report two cases in which epicardial approach was used to successfully ablate the VT, when endocardial ablation was ineffective.


