Integration of a surgical bipolar ablation device within an electroanatomical mapping system during epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation via video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a case report
Mark T Mills, Kirstin Welsh, Jonathan Sahu, Steven Hunter, Graeme J Kirkwood · 2024
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Description
Mark Mills and four co-authors report one case where a chest-scope route burned a faulty heart zone from the outside. The fault drove fast, wild heart beats that drugs could not tame. Such burns are often done with tubes through the skin. Here, scans pointed to a spot on the outer wall of the pump chamber, suited to the scope route.
The patient was a 55-year-old man whose heart muscle was weak for non-flow reasons. The team fed a surgical burn tool through the scope and linked it to a map of the spark paths of the heart. After the burn, the wild beats could no longer be sparked. By 18 months he stayed free of the wild rhythm on low drug help, save for six short runs in the first six weeks. The team offers the route for cases where the skin route fails.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mark T Mills, Kirstin Welsh, Jonathan Sahu, Steven Hunter, Graeme J Kirkwood |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |