**Diagnostics and Surgical Treatment of Left Ventricular Aneurysm with Ventricular Tachycardia**

Vladimir Shipulin, Vadim Babokin, Sergey Andreev, Vladimir Usov, Ruslan Aimanov, Anthony Bogunetsky, Roman Batalov and Sergey Popov

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/54126

**1. Introduction**

Left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) in postinfarction period makes for worse prognosis of cor‐ onary artery disease (CAD) course due to concomitant complications. With the natural course of postinfarction aneurysms 5 year survival varies from 25 to 60%, according to vari‐ ous authors. Ventricular arrhythmias cause death in 50% of the patients with remodelled left ventricle (LV) after myocardial infarction [1].

Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the method of choice for the evalua‐ tion of myocardial viability in patients with chronic CAD and with LVA in particular [2,3,4].

Meanwhile, data of contrast-enhanced MRI pictures with condition of electrophysiological activity and topical diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia in patients who had experienced myocardial infarction complicated with LVA have not been compared. At the same time, need for surgical treatment of cardiac aneurysm combined with intraoperative ablation of arrhythmogenic areas of myocardium arises no doubts since it allows for better treatment outcomes in the early postoperative period and in the late follow-up [4,5,6].

Thus, the objective of our study was to enhance efficacy of topical diagnostics and of surgical treatment in patients with postinfarction LV aneurysms complicated with ven‐ tricular rhythm disorders through application of contrast-enhanced MRI, electrophysio‐ logical study (EPhS) of the heart and optimal dissection or ablation of scarred and arrhythmogenic endocardium.

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