Larroussi Leila, Badhwar Nitish
Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Card Electrophysiol Clin. 2016 Mar;8(1):109-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ccep.2015.10.010.
This case highlights idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) arising from the crux of the heart. It is seen in patients without structural heart disease and can present as rapid hemodynamically unstable VT leading to cardiac arrest. 12 lead ECG showing RBBB with Q waves in inferior leads, precordial MDI>0.55 and R<S in V5 and V6 localized the VT to apical crux. The VT was successfully ablated in the epicardial cardiac crux through percutaneous pericardial access.