Surgery of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in patients with coronary artery disease and LV-aneurysms

• Published in: Scandinavian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 23; no. 2; p. 87
• Main Authors: Kromann-Hansen, O, Bloch-Thomsen, P E, Bagger, H, Albrechtsen, O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sweden 1989
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Coronary Artery Bypass; Electrophysiology; Female; Heart Aneurysm - physiopathology; Heart Aneurysm - surgery; Heart Ventricles; Humans; Intraoperative Complications; Male; Middle Aged; Myocardial Infarction - complications; Tachycardia - physiopathology; Tachycardia - surgery; Ventricular Fibrillation - physiopathology; Ventricular Fibrillation - surgery

In 26 patients with left ventricular aneurysm and ventricular tachycardia and/or ventricular fibrillation following myocardial infarction, coronary angiography, left ventriculography and electrophysiologic examination were performed preoperatively. Surgery in all cases consisted of aneurysmectomy an...