Epicardial Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Ischemic Heart Disease

Abstract

Epicardial ablation is potentially useful in ≥6% of the postinfarction VT population, but the number could be substantially greater because more than two thirds of patients selected for epicardial mapping after failed ablation had an epicardial VT target. Successful epicardial ablation of a VT was not predictable from infarct location or other patient characteristics.