室性心动过速(简称VT)是引起心血管病死亡的重要原因,其中约90％继发于冠心病。尽管内科强化监护和外科冠脉搭桥已使其死亡率明显下降,但顽固性VT仍为内外科医师面临的共同难题。70年代后期,外科治疗顽固性VT已取得令人鼓舞的效果。本文综合近年文献对此简述如下。 Ventricular tachycardia (referred to as VT) is an important cause of death caused by cardiovascular disease, of which about 90% secondary to coronary heart disease. Although intensive care and surgical bypass surgery have caused a significant reduction in mortality, intractable VT remains a common problem for surgeons. Surgical treatment of intractable VT has yielded encouraging results in the late 1970s. This article is a summary of recent literature as follows.