BACKGROUND: Late gadolinium enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) provides tissue characterization of ventricular myocardium and scar that can be depicted as pixel signal intensity (PSI) maps. OBJECTIVE: To assess the possible benefit of guiding the ventricular tachycardia (VT) substrate mapping by integrating these PSI maps into the navigation system. METHODS: In total, 159 consecutive patients (66 ± 11 years old, 151 men [95%]) with scar-related left ventricular (LV) VT were included. VT substrate ablation used the scar dechanneling technique. A CMR-aided ablation using the PSI maps was performed in 54 patients (34%). Procedural data as well as acute and long-term outcomes were compared with those of the remaining 105 patients (66%). RESULTS: Mean procedure duration and fluoroscopy time were 229 ± 67 minutes and 20 ± 9 minutes, respectively, without significant differences between groups. Both the number of radiofrequency (RF) applications and RF delivery time were lower in the CMR-aided group (28 ± 18 applications vs 36 ± 18 applications, P = .037, and 19 ± 12 minutes vs 27 ± 16 minutes, P = .009, respectively). After substrate ablation, monomorphic VT inducibility was lower in the CMR-aided than in the control group (17 [32%] vs 53 [51%] patients, P = .022). After a mean follow-up period of 20 ± 19 months, patients from the CMR-aided group had a lower recurrence rate than those in the control group (10 patients [18.5%] vs 46 patients [43.8%], respectively, P = .002; log-rank P = .017). Multivariate analysis found that CMR-aided ablation (hazard ratio, 0.48 [95% Confirdence Interval (CI) 0.24-0.96], P = .037) was an independent predictor of recurrences. CONCLUSION: CMR-aided scar dechanneling is associated with a lower need for RF delivery, higher noninducibility rates after substrate ablation, and a higher VT-recurrence-free survival.
BACKGROUND: Late gadolinium enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) provides tissue characterization of ventricular myocardium and scar that can be depicted as pixel signal intensity (PSI) maps. OBJECTIVE: To assess the possible benefit of guiding the ventricular tachycardia (VT) substrate mapping by integrating these PSI maps into the navigation system. METHODS: In total, 159 consecutive patients (66 ± 11 years old, 151 men [95%]) with scar-related left ventricular (LV) VT were included. VT substrate ablation used the scar dechanneling technique. A CMR-aided ablation using the PSI maps was performed in 54 patients (34%). Procedural data as well as acute and long-term outcomes were compared with those of the remaining 105 patients (66%). RESULTS: Mean procedure duration and fluoroscopy time were 229 ± 67 minutes and 20 ± 9 minutes, respectively, without significant differences between groups. Both the number of radiofrequency (RF) applications and RF delivery time were lower in the CMR-aided group (28 ± 18 applications vs 36 ± 18 applications, P = .037, and 19 ± 12 minutes vs 27 ± 16 minutes, P = .009, respectively). After substrate ablation, monomorphic VT inducibility was lower in the CMR-aided than in the control group (17 [32%] vs 53 [51%] patients, P = .022). After a mean follow-up period of 20 ± 19 months, patients from the CMR-aided group had a lower recurrence rate than those in the control group (10 patients [18.5%] vs 46 patients [43.8%], respectively, P = .002; log-rank P = .017). Multivariate analysis found that CMR-aided ablation (hazard ratio, 0.48 [95% Confirdence Interval (CI) 0.24-0.96], P = .037) was an independent predictor of recurrences. CONCLUSION: CMR-aided scar dechanneling is associated with a lower need for RF delivery, higher noninducibility rates after substrate ablation, and a higher VT-recurrence-free survival.
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