Advances in Mapping and Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 145
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; ventricular tachycardia; sudden cardiac death
Interests: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; ventricular tachycardia; sudden cardiac death
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Interests: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; ventricular tachycardia; sudden cardiac death
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; ventricular tachycardia; sudden cardiac death
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) is the cornerstone of therapy for preventing sudden cardiac death, but, unfortunately, ICDs do not prevent VT recurrence. Indeed, about one third of persons with an ICD will have episodes of VT and receive an ICD shock within three years after implantation. ICD therapies are associated with impaired quality of life, worsening of heart failure, and higher mortality. In this scenario, catheter ablation has become the mainstay strategy for treating scar-related VT to reduce arrhythmia recurrence and the number of ICD shocks. Activation map and entrainment maneuvers in inducible and hemodynamically tolerated VTs are utilized to target arrhythmogenic regions for VT ablation, but they are not always feasible. Multiple ablation techniques based on functional mapping have been proposed for non-inducible or non-tolerated VT. Moreover, the availability of ultra-high-density electroanatomic mapping catheters has improved our ability to detect slow conduction zones and/or anatomical barriers that are a prerequisite of scar-mediated re-entrant VT. Several substrate-based ablation strategies have been developed to allow for the identification of arrhythmogenic regions. Nowadays, Low-Voltage Areas, Late Potentials, Deceleration Zones, and VEDUM Zones represent the current substrate-based ablation targets, and their abolition is associated with improved ventricular arrhythmia-free survival.
This Special Issue will present and disseminate the most recent advances related to Mapping and Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia. In this Special Issue, original articles and reviews are welcome. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Michele Magnocavallo
Dr. Pietro Rossi
Dr. Filippo Maria Cauti
Dr. Antonio Bisignani
Dr. Stefano Bianchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- catheter ablation
- ventricular tachycardia
- sudden cardiac death
- structural heart disease
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