Why the study?
Does surgical excision of a ventricular aneurysm prevent recurrent life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with post-MI aneurysms?
Population
1 59-year-old female with recurrent ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation following anterior…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
10 months
Authors
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May support aneurysm excision for refractory post-MI VT; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Does surgical excision of a ventricular aneurysm prevent recurrent life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with post-MI aneurysms?
Surgical excision of a post-infarction ventricular aneurysm can successfully cure medically refractory, life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
Bauer et al. (1974) studied this question.
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