Impact of general anesthesia on initiation and stability of VT during catheter ablation
Nof E, Reichlin T, Enriquez AD, Ng J, Nagashima K, Tokuda M, Barbhaiya C, John RM, Michaud GF, Tedrow U, Gross W, Stevenson WG. Impact of general anesthesia on initiation and stability of VT during catheter ablation. Heart Rhythm 2015, 12: 2213-2220. PMID: 26072026, DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.06.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnesthesia, GeneralBody Surface Potential MappingBostonCatheter AblationCohort StudiesConscious SedationFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHospitals, UniversityHumansIsraelMalePostoperative ComplicationsRecurrenceRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentSeverity of Illness IndexStatistics, NonparametricSwitzerlandTachycardia, VentricularTreatment OutcomeConceptsClinical ventricular tachycardiaGeneral anesthesiaInducible ventricular tachycardiaInduced ventricular tachycardiaVentricular tachycardiaHemodynamic supportVT inducibilityConscious sedationRadiofrequency ablationEffects of GANonclinical ventricular tachycardiaLow ejection fractionMajority of patientsIntravenous conscious sedationEjection fractionNonischemic cardiomyopathyCatheter ablationRetrospective studyVT inductionVT morphologiesProspective groupRetrospective comparisonGA groupPatientsProcedure outcomesBetter outcome of ablation for sustained outflow-tract ventricular tachycardia when tachycardia is inducible
Choi EK, Kumar S, Nagashima K, Lin KY, Barbhaiya CR, Chinitz JS, Enriquez AD, Helmbold AF, Baldinger SH, Tedrow UB, Koplan BA, Michaud GF, John RM, Epstein LM, Stevenson WG. Better outcome of ablation for sustained outflow-tract ventricular tachycardia when tachycardia is inducible. EP Europace 2015, 17: 1571-1579. PMID: 25840288, DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv064.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPremature ventricular contractionsOvert structural heart diseaseOutflow tract ventricular tachycardiaMultiple VT morphologiesInducible ventricular tachycardiaStructural heart diseaseSustained ventricular tachycardiaVentricular tachycardiaInducible groupHeart diseaseVT morphologiesBetter outcomesInducibility of VTSpontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardiaCatheter ablationOutflow tract regionAblation outcomesMM groupVentricular contractionsGreat vesselsPatientsSM groupTachycardiaPVC morphologyOutcomes