Ventricular Tachycardia Rotating a Scar of a Total Right Ventricular Exclusion

Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Nov;100(5):1886-8. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.12.099.

Abstract

We describe a 15-year-old postoperative girl who underwent surgical 3-dimensional mapping and ablation of hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (VT) with an on-pump beating heart surgical technique. She had previously received a tricuspid valve closure, entire right ventricular free wall resection, and finally Fontan operation with an extracardiac conduit to treat a severe Ebstein's anomaly. Activation mapping revealed a VT rotating around a large right ventricular free wall incisional scar with a narrow conduction channel between the scar and a tricuspid annulus (TA). A linear radiofrequency ablation connecting the scar and the TA terminated the VT.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures
  • Catheter Ablation / methods*
  • Cicatrix
  • Defibrillators, Implantable*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac
  • Female
  • Heart Conduction System / physiopathology
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / physiopathology
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / surgery*