Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 752-759 , June 2009

Left cardiac sympathetic denervation for the treatment of long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia using video-assisted thoracic surgery

  • Christopher A. Collura, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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  • Jonathan N. Johnson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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  • Christopher Moir, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery/Division of Pediatric Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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  • Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
    • Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
    • Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Michael J. Ackerman, Long QT Syndrome Clinic and the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Guggenheim 501, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905

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Video-assisted thoracic surgical approach for left cardiac sympathetic denervation (VATS-LCSD).

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 Dr. Ackerman's research program was supported by the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Comprehensive Sudden Cardiac Death Program, the Dr. Scholl Foundation, the CJ Foundation for SIDS, Hannah Wernke Memorial Foundation, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health (HD42569).

 Dr. Ackerman is a consultant for PGxHealth, Medtronic, and Pfizer.

PII: S1547-5271(09)00315-4

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.03.024

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 752-759 , June 2009