Cardiology MCQ 337: Epicardial ablation of VT

Epicardial route will not be useful for ablation of:
a) Fascicular VT
b) Bundle branch re-entrant VT
c) VT originating from the papillary muscle
d) All of the above

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d) All of the above

Epicardial route will not be useful for VTs which involve the subendocardium and Purkinje system as in fascicular VT, bundle branch re-entrant VT or VT originating from the papillary muscle. An epicardial VT can be recognized by the slurred initial part of the QRS complex which resembles a delta wave. Read more…

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Source: Cardiophile MD - October 8, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance ECG / Electrophysiology Source Type: blogs