Adnan Ahmed, Rishi Charate, Danish Bawa, Rachad Ghazal, Jalaj Garg, Naga Venkata K Pothineni, Rajesh Kabra, Domenico G Della Rocca, Donita Atkins, Prajwala Lakkireddy, Sudha Bommana, Amin Al-Ahmad, Jayaprakash Shenthar, Deepak Padmanabhan, Calambur Narasimhan, Luigi DiBiase, Ahmed Romeya, Rakesh Gopinathannair, Andrea Natale, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy
BACKGROUND: Bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation (BCSD) for refractory life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias is a neuromodulatory intervention targeting sympathetically driven focal or re-entrant ventricular arrhythmias. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to provide a more complete and successful option for intervention in patients in whom premature ventricular contraction (PVC) ablation is not feasible or has been unsuccessful. METHODS: A total of 43 patients with >5% PVC burden and concomitant nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) who previously failed medical and ablation therapies were referred for BCSD...
October 25, 2023: JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology