An approach to avoid phrenic nerve injury during epicardial VT ablation

Authors

  • Bart A Mulder University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Theo J Klinkenberg University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Yuri Blaauw University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, The Netherlands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2022.19

Abstract

Elimination of ventricular tachycardia with epicardial substrate may be limited due to close proximity of the phrenic nerve. In this case report we illustrate the use of a decapolar catheter in a Foley catheter for deviating the prenic nerve to safely perform epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation.

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Published

2022-12-10

Issue

Vol. 2022 No. 3 (2022)

Section

Images in cardiology

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.