Why the study?
Does catheter ablation provide high efficacy and safety in pediatric patients with various tachycardia substrates?
Does catheter ablation provide high efficacy and safety in pediatric patients with various tachycardia substrates?
Catheter ablation is a safe and effective treatment for most pediatric tachycardias, though ventricular tachycardia ablation has lower long-term success.
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Supports ablation for most pediatric tachycardias except VT; extends observational data but leaves randomized confirmation open.
The present study proves overall high efficacy and safety of catheter ablation of various tachycardia substrates in pediatric patients. Of note, complication rate was exceptionally low. Long-term success was high except for patients after VT ablation.
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Krause et al. (2020) studied this question.
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