Why the study?
Does endocardial excision prevent recurrent ventricular tachycardia in patients with medically refractory ventricular tachycardia secondary to ischemic heart disease?
Population
12 patients with medically refractory ventricular tachycardia secondary to ischemic heart disease
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
9-20 months
Authors
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May support endocardial excision for refractory ischemic VT; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Does endocardial excision prevent recurrent ventricular tachycardia in patients with medically refractory ventricular tachycardia secondary to ischemic heart disease?
Endocardial excision guided by intraoperative mapping effectively eliminates medically refractory ventricular tachycardia in patients with ischemic heart disease.
Josephson et al. (1979) studied this question.
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