Treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) remains one of the most important frontiers of cardiac electrophysiology. In patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI) or other forms of heart disease, ...
Theoretically, any reentrant VT can be terminated by a critically timed pacing stimulus that depolarizes the excitable gap. This principle is shown schematically in Figure 2. In panel A, the head of ...