Twenty-five years of catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia: a look back and a look forward

Andrea Natale; Katja Zeppenfeld; Paolo Della Bella; Xu Liu; Avi Sabbag; Pasquale Santangeli; Philipp Sommer; Christian Sticherling; Xiaodong Zhang; Luigi Di Biase

doi:10.1093/europace/euad225

Twenty-five years of catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia: a look back and a look forward

Europace. 2023 Aug 2;25(9):euad225. doi: 10.1093/europace/euad225.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electrophysiology, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, 3000 N. I-35, Suite 720, Austin, TX 78705, USA.
² Department of Cardiology, Willem Einthoven Center of Arrhythmia Research and Management, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmology, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
⁵ Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel and the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
⁶ Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁷ Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
⁸ University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁹ Montefiore Health System, Einstein Medical School, New York, USA.

Abstract

This article will discuss the past, present, and future of ventricular tachycardia ablation and the continuing contribution of the Europace journal as the platform for publication of milestone research papers in this field of ventricular tachycardia ablation.

Keywords: Energy; Technologies imaging; VT ablation.

MeSH terms

Catheter Ablation* / adverse effects
Humans
Tachycardia, Ventricular* / diagnosis
Tachycardia, Ventricular* / surgery

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