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Repeated endo-epicardial VT ablations in cardiac sarcoidosis trigger late giant LV pseudoaneurysm formation.
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Highlights the risk of silent, life-threatening complications like massive left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following multiple VT catheter ablations, particularly in patients with infiltrative heart disease.
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Clinicians should monitor for silent pseudoaneurysm after repeated VT ablations in cardiac sarcoidosis; case report leaves open incidence and predictors.
Late development of left ventricular (LV) pseudoaneurysms after ventricular tachycardia (VT) catheter ablation is a rare phenomenon, and very few cases have been reported in the medical literature. We describe the case of a giant LV pseudoaneurysm as a late complication of multiple epicardial and endocardial VT ablations in a female in her 50s with known cardiac sarcoidosis.
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Koch et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Cardiac sarcoidosis and recurrent unstable ventricular tachycardia (n=1). Multiple epicardial and endocardial ventricular tachycardia ablations was evaluated on Development of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. Multiple epicardial and endocardial ventricular tachycardia ablations in a patient with cardiac sarcoidosis resulted in the late development of a giant, asymptomatic left ventricular pseudoaneurysm.
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