Does catheter ablation prevent recurrence and reduce cardiac mortality in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators experiencing electrical storm?
Catheter ablation is an effective short-term treatment for electrical storm in ICD patients and may improve long-term cardiac mortality by preventing recurrence.
Advanced strategies of catheter ablation applied to a large population of patients are effective in the short-term treatment of ES. By preventing ES recurrence, catheter ablation may play a protective role over the long term and, together with long-term pharmacological therapy, may favorably affect cardiac mortality.
Carbucicchio et al. (Wed,) studied this question.