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Successful Catheter Ablation of the “R on T” Ventricular Fibrillation

In patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF), recurrent implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks might increase mortality risk and reduce patients’ quality of life. Catheter ablation of triggering ectopic beats is considered to be an effective method. We present a patient wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lasocka, Zofia, Dąbrowska-Kugacka, Alicja, Lewicka, Ewa, Liżewska-Springer, Aleksandra, Królak, Tomasz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8468308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574512
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189587
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Sumario:In patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF), recurrent implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks might increase mortality risk and reduce patients’ quality of life. Catheter ablation of triggering ectopic beats is considered to be an effective method. We present a patient with recurrent VF, caused by the “R on T” premature ventricular complexes. In the presented case radiofrequency catheter ablation efficiently eliminated arrhythmia trigger, which was possible to detect thanks to the intracardiac electrocardiograms (ECG’s) stored in the ICD.