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Encircling endocardial ventriculotomy (EEV) as surgical treatment for recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) in the setting of coronary artery disease was introduced in 1978 by Guiraudon [1]. Since then this technique has proved to be a highly efficient approach to eradicating enhanced ventricular electrical vulnerability and tachycardiac rhythm disturbances of the reentry type [2–4]. The mechanism of this antiarrhythmic effect is not quite clear; interruption of reentry circuits [1] or initiation of an ischemic injury to the arrhythmogenic tissues [5] are possibilities under discussion.
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Ostermeyer, J., Breithardt, G., Borggrefe, M., Godehardt, E., Bircks, W. (1984). Left Ventricular Aneurysmectomy Combined with Encircling Endocardial Ventriculotomy for Treatment of Recurrent Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia. In: Unger, F. (eds) Coronary Artery Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69638-1_30
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