Structural and functional correlates of ventricular tachycardia corridors in ischemic cardiomyopathy: cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and electroanatomic mapping correlation
M Dogan, C Coteli, H Yorgun, K Kudret Aytemir · 2026
Read Structural and functional correlates of ventricular tachycardia corridors in ischemic cardiomyopathy: cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and electroanatomic mapping correlation by M Dogan, C Coteli, H Yorgun, K Kudret Aytemir (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13302281.txt.
Description
M Dogan, C Coteli, and colleagues correlate, in a 2026 study, MRI-defined corridors through heart scar with electrical maps in patients having ablation for ventricular tachycardia. These corridors are surviving tissue channels inside scar that can carry the circuit behind the rhythm. Older thinking pictured them as flat, but scans reveal three-dimensional paths.
Forty-three patients with ischaemic heart damage treated between 2021 and 2025 had special MRI analysis before ablation. Eighty-nine corridors were found, and those tied to slow-conduction zones were longer and bulkier than others. Corridor length alone independently marked that link, and most corridors reached beyond the inner heart surface into deeper layers. Outer-layer scar burden predicted rhythm recurrence during follow-up.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | M Dogan, C Coteli, H Yorgun, K Kudret Aytemir |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |