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An approach to avoid phrenic nerve injury during epicardial VT ablation

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Elimination of ventricular tachycardia with epicardial substrate may be limited due to close proximity of the phrenic nerve. In this case report we illustrate the use of a decapolar catheter in a Foley catheter for deviating the prenic nerve to safely perform epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation.

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