Ventricular tachycardia treatment

The frequency of arrhythmias from the main chambers of the heart is increasing due to rising life expectancy and better drug therapies - especially in patients who have suffered a heart attack and severely impaired pump function. If drug therapy fails, catheter ablation is used.

Catheter ablation is increasingly being used primarily in young patients without structural heart changes, as they do not want to take medication for the rest of their lives or because it is associated with side effects. Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia is mainly performed endovascularly (“from the inside”), but may also be necessary epicardially. The pericardium is punctured from the outside under the sternum and the catheters are navigated in the pericardium.

Verödung einer Kammertachykardie aus der linken Herzkammer (lila) «von innen» (endokardial) bei einem Patienten mit Herzmuskelschwäche (Ansicht von vorne). Der linke Vorhof ist grün dargestellt. Das 3-dimensionale Mapping ist mit dem CT des linken Ventrikels und linken Vorhofs überlagert (CARTO merge). Die roten und grün-blauen Areale stellen die Narbe dar, aus der die Kammertachykardien kommen. Rot/rosa sind die Verödungs (Ablations)punkte markiert.

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