The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 53, 692-693, Copyright © 1992 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Surgical laser ablation of a pediatric idiopathic ventricular tachycardia
T Nitta, M Ikeshita, T Asano, S Tanaka, T Shoji, S Ohkawa and M Sugiura
Second Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
A pediatric patient with medically refractory idiopathic ventricular
tachycardia was successfully treated by surgical laser ablation.
Application of laser on the normothermic beating heart enables continuous
electrophysiological assessment. The histopathology of idiopathic
ventricular tachycardia and the advantages of laser ablation are presented.