Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Catheter ablation for tachycardia

 Catheter ablation In patients with structural heart disease resulting from scar or cardiomyopathy, success rates range between 50% and 75% at 6 to 12 months. In cases when a patient experiences a recurrence, 2 of 3 patients will still have less VT than before the initial ablation.

VT is ventricular tachycardia but there also is supraventricular (atrial) tachycardia.

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/122/3/e389.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564051/

http://www.uptodate.com/contents/catheter-ablation-of-atrial-tachycardia

http://www.uptodate.com/contents/radiofrequency-catheter-ablation-for-the-heart-beyond-the-basics

http://www.hrsonline.org/Education/SelfStudy/Articles/kay.cfm http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/short/56/19/1589

 Maze heart surgery - no