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non-sustained ventricular tachycardia
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non-sustained ventricular tachycardia
by Katia-Alvim--MD, Jan 01, 1995 12:00AM
Posted By Katia Alvim, M.D. on March 01, 1999 at 16:55:20:
Dear Colleagues;
I am a Brazilian Anesthesiologist whose father, a doctor also, has undergone heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic 11 years ago ( partial ventriculectomy with teflon patch, due to a left ventricular aneurysm after the occlusion of the anterior descendent coronary artery).
He underwent an urgent bypass surgery three months ago, in Sao Paulo ( Hospital do Coracao), because it was found that his right descendent coronary artery was 80% occluded during a CAT to perform an electrophysiological study of his non-sustained ventricular tachycardia episodes.
He is now recovering well, but the issue of the ventricular tachycardia remains: some colleagues insist he undergo electrophysiological study again, others ( including his surgeon) want him not to perform any invasive procedure, rather mantaining the episodes of ventricular tachycardia controlled with antiarrytimic drugs.
My request is, can you provide us with up-to-date literature and comments about the treatment of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia?
We would be very grateful. Thanks!
Katia Alvim, M.D.
Dear Colleagues;
I am a Brazilian Anesthesiologist whose father, a doctor also, has undergone heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic 11 years ago ( partial ventriculectomy with teflon patch, due to a left ventricular aneurysm after the occlusion of the anterior descendent coronary artery).
He underwent an urgent bypass surgery three months ago, in Sao Paulo ( Hospital do Coracao), because it was found that his right descendent coronary artery was 80% occluded during a CAT to perform an electrophysiological study of his non-sustained ventricular tachycardia episodes.
He is now recovering well, but the issue of the ventricular tachycardia remains: some colleagues insist he undergo electrophysiological study again, others ( including his surgeon) want him not to perform any invasive procedure, rather mantaining the episodes of ventricular tachycardia controlled with antiarrytimic drugs.
My request is, can you provide us with up-to-date literature and comments about the treatment of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia?
We would be very grateful. Thanks!
Katia Alvim, M.D.
