Hybrid Surgical Ablation of Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia in a Patient With High-Risk Brugada Syndrome.

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Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Postgraduate Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, European Reference Networks Guard-Heart, Brussels, Belgium.

Published: February 2022

A 38-year-old man with a diagnosis of Brugada syndrome had a recurrence of monomorphic ventricular tachycardia 6 years after successful epicardial right ventricular outflow tract ablation by the use of subxiphoid access. Preprocedural and intraprocedural investigations suggested that the pathologic substrate of the right ventricular outflow tract had not been eliminated completely. Therefore, the patient underwent a hybrid electrophysiology-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic ablation. ().

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8855133PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.11.018DOI Listing

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