Epicardial ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients with structural heart disease: a single-centre experience over 12 years.
Angeliki DarmaLivio BertagnolliAlexander WeberBorislav DinovFederica TorriJulia Anna LurzAlireza Sepehri ShamlooNikolaos DagresAndreas BollmannGerhard HindricksArash AryaPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2022)
In this large tertiary single-centre experience, percutaneous epicardial access was feasible in the large majority of the cohort with acceptably low complications rates. A combined endo-/epicardial approach resulted in 87% acute and 71% long-term success. Further studies are needed to clarify the role of routine combined endo-/epicardial ablation in these complex cardiomyopathies.