Severe Complications During Ventricular Tachycardia or Premature Ventricular Complex Ablation
Purpose
The investigators aim to characterize patients presenting with a severe ventricular tachycardia (VT) and premature ventricular complex (PVC)-ablation-related complication including patient characteristics, procedural details and subsequent management of the complication by gathering existing patient-level data.
Conditions
- Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
- Premature Ventricular Complexes
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 18 Years
- Eligible Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- Centers : Centers participating in the present collaborative study group. Invitation to participate will be based either upon personal referral of one of the investigator, previous collaboration or based on a meta-analytic review of the literature published on the subject within the past 20 years. - Patients: Females and males of >18 years undergoing any type of VT/PVC ablation. While we will accept redo-procedure we will ask for a unique patient-identifier to link procedures belonging to the same patients together. - Interventions: VT/PVC ablation (first intervention or re-do) as routinely performed by the participating centers - Outcomes: Severe complications, defined as hemodynamic instability requiring mechanical intensive-care management, tamponade, stroke, cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, phrenic nerve palsies, major bleeding requiring transfusion, vascular or cardiac complication requiring surgery, procedure-related death. - Setting: Observational cohort studies, registries, retrospective cohort studies. Data stemming from RCTs (Randomized controlled trials) will not be collected as they likely do not represent a "real-life" setting. - Length of follow-up: Peri-procedural complications - Years considered: Not limited to a specific time-frame, but to reflect common ablation practices, we will focus on data from the 20 past years. - Number of patients provided : No lower limit of patients provided per dataset or ablation volume per year to include high- as well as low-volume centers
Exclusion Criteria
- Refusal of the center to participate. - Less than 10 procedures available in the dataset (no case reports) - Missing essential baseline characteristics, missing collection of sufficient details regarding each complication.
Study Design
- Phase
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Retrospective
Recruiting Locations
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Chicago, Illinois 60612
University of Michigan
Michigan Center, Michigan 48109
Michigan Center, Michigan 48109
More Details
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland