Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...
1: N Engl J Med. 2008 May 8;358(19):2024-9.Click here to read Links

Left cardiac sympathetic denervation for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.

Wilde AA, Bhuiyan ZA, Crotti L, Facchini M, De Ferrari GM, Paul T, Ferrandi C, Koolbergen DR, Odero A, Schwartz PJ.

University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. a.a.wilde@amc.uva.nl

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a potentially lethal disease characterized by adrenergically mediated ventricular arrhythmias manifested especially in children and teenagers. Beta-blockers are the cornerstone of therapy, but some patients do not have a complete response to this therapy and receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Given the nature of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, ICD shocks may trigger new arrhythmias, leading to the administration of multiple shocks. We describe the long-term efficacy of surgical left cardiac sympathetic denervation in three young adults with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, all of whom had symptoms before the procedure and were symptom-free afterward. Copyright 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society.

PMID: 18463378 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]