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Case Reports
. 2021 Feb;32(2):547-550.
doi: 10.1111/jce.14809. Epub 2020 Nov 18.

Acute coronary artery occlusion and ischemia-related ventricular tachycardia during catheter ablation in the right ventricular outflow tract

Yosuke Nakatani  1 , Konstantinos Vlachos  1 , F Daniel Ramirez  1 , Takashi Nakashima  1 , Pierre Jais  1 , Frédéric Sacher  1 , Tixier Romain  1
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Acute coronary artery occlusion and ischemia-related ventricular tachycardia during catheter ablation in the right ventricular outflow tract

Yosuke Nakatani et al. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

Coronary artery injury is a rare complication of catheter ablation in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT). Furthermore, acute myocardial ischemia usually causes polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation. We herein describe a case in which catheter ablation for VT originating from the RVOT provoked ischemia-related VTs due to acute occlusion of the left anterior descending artery.

Keywords: catheter ablation; coronary artery; left anterior descending artery; right ventricular outflow tract; ventricular tachycardia.

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