High-Resolution Mapping of Ventricular Scar
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The pathophysiology of infarct-related reentrant ventricular tachycardia (VT) includes myocardial cell death and ventricular remodeling, resulting in inhomogeneous scarring with variable degrees and configurations of surviving myocardial bundles within the areas of fibrosis. This provides the necessary electrophysiological substrate for formation of reentrant VTs that are predominantly located in the subendocardium.
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