Prevalence and risk factors of cardiac thrombus prior to ventricular tachycardia catheter ablation in structural heart disease.

Thomas Bonnin Pierre Roumegou Soumaya SridiSaagar MahidaAurélien Bustin Josselin Duchateau Romain TixierNicolas DervalThomas Pambrun Ghassen Chniti Takamitsu Takagi Tsukasa Kamakura Philipp Krisai Clémentine Andre Rémi Chauvel Mélèze Hocini Michel Haïssaguerre Pierre Jais Hubert Cochet Frédéric Sacher

Published 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)

Cardiac thrombus can be identified in 11% of patients referred for scar-related VT ablation. These findings underscore the importance of systematic thrombus screening to minimize embolic risk.

Keyphrases

catheter ablation
atrial fibrillation
left ventricular
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
left atrial
left atrial appendage
prognostic factors
pulmonary hypertension
heart failure
patient reported outcomes