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Int J Cardiol
January 2025
Department of Public Health, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Background: Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCM) is a significant cause of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Although, implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD) have been used for all forms of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM), studies on ICD efficacy in CCM are scarce.
Objective: The present study aims to compare the long-term outcomes, mortality rates, and the occurrence of tachycardia therapies after ICD implantation in patients with CCM and NICM.
Background: Catheter ablation is the primary treatment option for idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT). It plays a key role in acute therapy of electrical storm, treatment of VTs in patients with structural heart disease (SHD), and can reduce VT burden. Here we report on 10-year clinical outcomes following VT ablation from patients enrolled in the prospective German Ablation Registry.
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December 2024
Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia.
Background: This case highlights the management of concomitant acute myocarditis and congenital long QT syndrome with electrical storm and incessant Torsade de Pointes.
Case Presentation: An 18 years-old Southeast Asian para 1 abortus 0 (P1A0) postpartum patient with cesarean section owing to severe preeclampsia, acute lymphocytic myocarditis, and prolonged QT interval owing to long QT syndrome. She has incessant Torsade de Pointes treated with beta-blocker, lidocaine, overdrive pacing with a temporary transvenous pacemaker, left cardiac sympathetic denervation per video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation.
HeartRhythm Case Rep
November 2024
Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
JACC Clin Electrophysiol
December 2024
Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Catheter ablation to prevent ventricular tachycardia (VT) that emerges late after a myocardial infarction aims to interrupt the re-entry substrate. Interruption of potential channels and regions of slow conduction that can be identified during stable sinus or paced rhythm is often effective and a number of substrate markers for guiding this approach have been described. While there is substantial agreement with different markers in some patients, the different markers select different regions for ablation in others.
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