Structural Interventions and Potential Unforeseen Limits on Access to Ventricular Tachycardia Substrates

Diagnosis of Ventricular Tachycardia Electrocardiography

Les signes clectrocardiographiques classiques nc sont pas toujours suMisants pour ·le diagnostic de la tachycardie ventriculaire. Nous avons insiste d'une part sur !'importance diagnostique des complex de ca· ptures et d'auters part sur l'import.anre des procedcs nouveux Tels :  1- Enrcgishemcnt du potentiel du faisreau de  2- Stimulation references endocavitaire.

Sustained ventricular tachycardia in structural heart disease.

Ventricular arrhythmias are responsible for the majority of sudden cardiac deaths (SCD), particularly in patients with structural heart disease. Coronary artery disease, essentially previous myocardial infarction, is the most common heart disease upon which sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) occurs, being reentry the predominant mechanism. Other cardiac conditions, such as idiopathic dilate...

Early access to medicinal products: potential and limits

On average it takes 12 years and a billion euros to develop a new medicinal product from first discovery to availability for patients. Especially in the later stages of development, when promising phase 2 data are available it is difficult to accept for patients there is no general access. In order to make medicines available at an earlier stage and to optimise their development, new ways of ta...

Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia: are there limits?

Ventricular apical access and closure, and re-access devices to facilitate mitral valve interventions.