Does ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation improve survival and prevent VT recurrence in elderly patients compared to younger patients?
VT ablation is feasible and reasonably safe in elderly patients, offering similar freedom from VT recurrence as in younger patients and conferring a survival benefit when successful.
VT ablation in the elderly is feasible and reasonably safe with a modestly higher in-hospital and 1-year mortality, with similar rates of VT recurrence at 1 year compared with younger patients. Successful VT ablation, that is, lack of VT recurrence, is strongly associated with improved survival even in this elderly subgroup.
Vakil et al. (Fri,) studied this question.