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High-density substrate-guided ventricular tachycardia ablation: role of activation mapping in an attempt to improve procedural effectiveness.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:Advanced techniques of electroanatomical mapping efficiently guide ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation strategies; in this context, the adjunctive value of combining activation mapping (AMap) to improve accuracy has not been elucidated. OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether conventional AMap further contributes to the identification of critical sites of VT reentry and whether this translates into a more effective ablation outcome in a cohort of patients undergoing VT ablation. METHODS:We prospectively enrolled 126 patients (mean age 65.3 ± 10.5 years; left ventricular ejection fraction 33.3% ± 7.2%) with ischemic (n = 89) or idiopathic (n = 37) dilated cardiomyopathy undergoing endocardial (n = 105) or endo-epicardial (n = 21) electroanatomical mapping and ablation. A substrate-guided strategy targeting surrogate markers of reentry was accomplished in all patients, but the feasibility and efficacy of AMap was preliminarily assessed for all induced VTs focusing on early VT suppression obtained during radiofrequency delivery. VT-free survival was assessed by ICD interrogation. RESULTS:AMap successfully guided ablation in 62 of 104 (59.6%) patients with inducible VT(s). At 1 year, 6 of 126 (4.8%) patients died; VT recurred in 28 of 126 (22.2%) patients. No significant difference in VT recurrence rate was observed between patients in whom AMap proved effective versus those in whom substrate-guided ablation was not corroborated by AMap (16 of 62 [25.8%] vs 12 of 64 [18.8%]; log-rank test, P = .3). CONCLUSIONS:Our findings support the efficacy of a substrate-guided strategy targeting specific markers of arrhythmogenicity identified during sinus rhythm. AMap proves highly efficient acutely but does not improve overall VT-free survival, suggesting that in patients with advanced cardiac disease, life-threatening arrhythmias can be successfully treated by ablation in sinus rhythm, thus limiting procedural risks.

journal_name

Heart Rhythm

journal_title

Heart rhythm

authors

Carbucicchio C,Ahmad Raja N,Di Biase L,Volpe V,Dello Russo A,Trivedi C,Bartoletti S,Zucchetti M,Casella M,Russo E,Santangeli P,Moltrasio M,Tundo F,Fassini G,Natale A,Tondo C

doi

10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.09.059

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1850-8

issue

eissn

1547-5271

issn

1556-3871

pii

S1547-5271(13)01069-2

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High-density substrate-guided ventricular tachycardia ablation: role of activation mapping in an attempt to improve procedural effectiveness.