Accessing the pericardial space safely and efficiently is an important skill for interventional
cardiac electrophysiologist. With the increased recognition of the complexity of the 3 …

Since its first description by Sosa and colleagues, 1 the percutaneous epicardial approach
has become an adjunctive tool for electrophysiologists to treat disparate cardiac …

Corentin Chaumont, MD, 1, 2 Alireza Oraii, MD, 1 Timothy M. Markman, MD, 1 Fermin C.
Garcia, MD, 1 David Lin, MD, 1 Gregory E. Supple, MD, FHRS, 1 Erica S. Zado, PA-C, FHRS …

Introduction Pericardial access for ablation of ventricular arrhythmias (VA) can be gained
either by an anterior-oriented or inferior-oriented epicardial puncture under fluoroscopical …

Blood vessels are fully lined on the heart and sternum. Massive bleeding following heart
surgery significantly reduces the effectiveness of anti-adhesion materials, resulting in severe …

Abstract Background Epicardial (Epi) access is commonly required during ventricular
tachycardia ablation. Conventional Epi (ConvEpi) access targets a “dry” pericardial space …

Hybrid Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Using Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy to Obtain
Epicardial Access Page 1 Journal Pre-proof Hybrid Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Using …

Background Epicardial ablation complications are more frequent in patients with preexisting
pericardial adhesions. As opposed to the dry puncture technique, the coronary vein exit and …

Aims In patients with post-myocardial infarction (post-MI) ventricular tachycardia (VT), the
presence of myocardial calcification (MC) may prevent heating of a subepicardial VT …

Hybrid surgical ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation combines surgical epicardial
access/exposure with contemporary mapping and ablation techniques adapted from …