摘要
Substratecharacterizationisthemainstayofablationforventriculartachycardia(VT).Althoughtheuseofelectroanatomicvoltagemapping(EAVM)intheelectrophysiology(EP)laboratoryhasenabledreal-timeapproximationofmyocardialscar,ithaslimitations.Thisisrelatedtothesubjectiveandtediousnatureofvoltagemappingandthechallengesofdefiningthetransmuralityofscar.Variousnoninvasivemethodsofscarassessmenthaveemerged,withmagneticresonanceimaging(MRI)beingthemostaccurate.IntegratedMRIandelectroanatomicvoltagemappingstudiesdemonstrategoodcorrelation.Nonetheless,MRIhasadvantages.Theseinclude(1)preprocedureidentificationofepicardialandintramuralscar,(2)assessmentofablativelesionformationafterunsuccessfulablations,(3)identifi-cationofheterogeneousregionsofscar,wherecriticalconductingchannelsarelikelytooccur,and(4)predictivevalueintheassessmentofsuddencardiacdeath(SCD).Integrationofscarimaginginventriculartachycardiaablationandriskstratificationhasgreatpotentialtoadvancethepracticeofarrhythmiamanagement.
出版日期
2016年12月07日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
