PMID: 2106295Feb 1, 1990Paper

Surgical ablation for idiopathic ventricular tachycardia

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
B P Blakeman, D Wilber

Abstract

A 33-year-old man with a right-bundle branch, left-axis deviation ventricular tachycardia was medically treated unsuccessfully. Surgical mapping and ablation was performed with a successful surgical result. A discussion of surgical results for this problem is provided.

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