[Surgical therapy of postinfarct tachyarrhythmia (author's transl)].

Abstract

Thirteen patients with ventricular tachyarrhythmias after myocardial infarction underwent surgery at the heart wall or at the coronary vessels. Ten of these patients had an aneurysm of the anterior wall or akinesia of the anterior wall which in some cases was associated with stenosis of the right coronary artery or of the circumflex artery. One patient showed an isolated stenosis of the right coronary artery. One patient died from recurrent ventricular fibrillation during hospitalization, another patient died from reinfarction 4 months later. All the other patients could be discharged and were improved significantly.