An approach to avoid phrenic nerve injury during epicardial VT ablation
Bart A Mulder1, Theo J Klinkenberg1, Yuri Blaauw1
1University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Global Cardiology Science & Practice
|January 20, 2023
Abstract:
Elimination of ventricular tachycardia with epicardial substrate may be limited due to close proximity of the phrenic nerve. In this case report we illustrate the use of a decapolar catheter in a Foley catheter for deviating the prenic nerve to safely perform epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation.
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