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Radiofrequency catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia in ischaemic cardiomyopathy due to Kawasaki disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2018

Hisaaki Komaki*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
Takashi Nakashima
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
Shinya Minatoguchi
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
*
Author for correspondence: H. Komaki, MD, Department of Cardiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1194, Japan. Tel: +81 90 9020 8567; Fax: +81 58 230 6524; E-mail: h-komaki@qg7.so-net.ne.jp

Abstract

In some patients with Kawasaki disease, a prior myocardial infarction causes ventricular tachycardia in the chronic post-myocardial infarction phase. We report the case of a 41-year-old man with symptomatic and haemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia in whom substrate ablation was performed for the ventricular tachycardia before insertion of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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