Table. Clinical Characteristics and Procedural Data.
| Characteristic | Patient No. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Clinical characteristics | ||||
| Sex | Male | Male | Male | Male |
| Diabetes | No | No | No | No |
| Hypertension | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Type of cardiomyopathy | Ischemic | Nonischemic | Ischemic | Ischemic |
| Left ventricular ejection fraction, % | 40 | 35 | 15 | 35 |
| Chronic kidney disease | No | No | Yes | No |
| New York Heart Association class | II | II | III | I |
| Clinical presentation | VT storm | Nonsustained VT | VT storm | VT storm |
| Amiodarone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ≥2 Antiarrhythmic drugs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Baseline | ||||
| Rhythm | AF | Sinus | AF | Sinus |
| Conduction | Complete heart block | First atrioventricular delay, intraventricular conduction delay | Intraventricular conduction delay | Normal |
| Procedural data | ||||
| International normalized ratio (day of the procedure) | 3 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| Time to obtain left ventricular access, min | 60 | 35 | 28 | 22 |
| Balloon size for ISP-LV dilatation, mm | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 |
| Size of residual Gerbode defect on intracardiac echocardiography, mm | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| No. of VTs induced | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| TCL, ms | ||||
| Fastest | 350 | 340 | 380 | 270 |
| Slowest | 460 | 390 | 570 | 350 |
| Noninducibility of any VT at programmed electrical stimulation | Yes | Yes | Noa | Yes |
Abbreviations: ISP-LV, inferior-septal process of the left ventricle; VT, ventricular tachycardia.
Two nonclinical hemodynamically unstable VTs remained inducible and were not targeted.