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Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia in patients with Brugada syndrome: A multicenter retrospective study
Moisés Rodríguez-Mañero 1 , Frédéric Sacher 2 , Carlo de Asmundis 3 , Philippe Maury 4 , Pier D Lambiase 5 , Andrea Sarkozy 6 , Vincent Probst 7 , Estelle Gandjbakhch 8 , Jesús Castro-Hevia 9 , Johan Saenen 6 , Kengo Fukushima Kusano 10 , Anne Rollin 4 , Elena Arbelo 11 , Miguel Valderrábano 12 , Miguel A Arias 13 , Ignacio Mosquera-Pérez 14 , Richard Schilling 5 , Gian-Battista Chierchia 3 , Ignacio García-Bolao 15 , Javier García-Seara 16 , Jaime Hernandez-Ojeda 11 , Tsukasa Kamakura 10 , Luis Martínez-Sande 16 , José Ramón González-Juanatey 16 , Michel Haïssaguerre 2 , Josep Brugada 11 , Pedro Brugada 3
Background: Isolated cases of monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (MVT) in patients with Brugada syndrome (BrS) have been reported.
Objective: We aimed to describe the incidence and characteristics of MVT in a cohort of patients with BrS who had received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD).
Methods: Data from 834 patients with BrS implanted with an ICD in 15 tertiary hospitals between 1993 and 2014 were included.
Results: The mean age of enrolled patients was 45.3 ± 13.9 years; 200 patients (24%) were women. During a mean follow-up of 69.4 ± 54.3 months, 114 patients (13.7%) experienced at least 1 appropriate ICD intervention, with MVT recorded in 35 patients (4.2%) (sensitive to antitachycardia pacing in 15 [42.8%]).
Only QRS width was an independent predictor of MVT in the overall population. Specifically, 6 (17.1%) patients presented with right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia (successfully ablated from the endocardium in 4 and epicardial and endocardial ablation in 1), 2 patients with MVT arising from the left ventricle (1 successfully ablated in the supra lateral mitral annulus), and 2 (5.7%) patients with bundle branch reentry ventricular tachycardia. Significant structural heart disease was ruled out by echocardiography and/or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Conclusion: In this retrospective study, 4.2% of patients with BrS implanted with an ICD presented with MVT confirmed as arising from the right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia in 6, patients with MVT arising from the left ventricle in 2, and patients with bundle branch reentry ventricular tachycardia in 2.
Endocardial and/or epicardial ablation was successful in 80% of these cases. These data imply that the occurrence of MVT should not rule out the possibility of BrS. This finding may also be relevant for ICD model selection and programming.
CITA DEL ARTÍCULO Heart Rhythm. 2016 Mar;13(3):669-82. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.10.038. Epub 2015 Oct 29.
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