CASE REPORT   

Minerva Pediatrica 2002 February;54(1):53-6

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language: English

Successful surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardia that induced left ventricular aneurysm in 12-year-old boy

Tsukui H., Hoshino S., Saito N., Nishiya Y., Usuda K.

A surgical treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) that induced a congenital left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) in a 12-year-old boy was performed. The VT disappeared after epicardial cryoablation and a reinforcement of LVA with a composite patch. Epicardial cryoablation, based on an intraoperative electrophysiologic study (EPS), is effective in treating VT resistant to antiarrhythmia drugs.