Timing of Ablation and Prognosis of Patients with Electrical Storm and Scar-Related Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Electrical storm (ES) is a very serious clinical syndrome. It is characterised by several episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) produced by a state of electrical instability1-3. Several works show that patients with ES present an increased risk of sudden arrhythmic or cardiac death in the midterm follow up4,5; however no reproducible data on acute mortality are available6. Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) for ES is safe and very effective in reducing the number of monomorphic VT episodes7,8.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - September 14, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Javier Jim énez Candil, Juan Carlos Castro, Jesús Hernández, Javier Fernández-Portales, Manuel Durán, Olga Durán, Jendri Pérez, Juliana Elices, José Luis Moríñigo, Francisco Martín, Carlos González-Juanatey, Pedro L Sánchez Source Type: research