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Serious ventricular tachyarrhythmias are relatively common after myocardial infarction. Drug treatment or direct-current countershock results in conversion to normal rhythm in most cases, and the use of antiarrhythmic drugs or, rarely, overdrive pacing may prevent recurrences.' Occasionally, ventricular irritability may be refractory to all conventional modes of therapy, posing a serious threat to life. Surgical intervention with resection of a ventricular aneurysm has been successful in a number of instances when refractory recurrent episodes of ventricular tachyarrhythmias have been associated with a postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm.": " Additionally, recent reports have indicated that coronary arterial revascularization, performed in some instances without resection of a ventricular aneurysm, may be successful.': " The present report summarizes our experience with surgical treatment of refractory ventricular irritability in both the acute and

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Author

E.D. Mundth; M.J. Buckley; R.W. DeSanctis; W.M. Daggett; W.G. Austen

Publisher

CTSNet; American Association for Thoracic Surgery; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 1097-685X)

Published

1973

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)