Echocardiographic Predictors of Survival in Patients Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation of Postinfarct Clinical Ventricular Tachycardia

Abstract

In our patient population with postinfarct VT who underwent RFA of mappable clinical VT(s), LVEF did not predict survival. In this group of patients with overall low mean LVEF (<35%), older age together with higher LVEDV and LVESD predicted patients who were more prone to die. LV size rather than LVEF correlated with survival.