The successful cryosurgical treatment of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia.

Cryotherapy has been successfully applied to the destruction of conduction tissue and accessory pathways. In this report, its successful application to the ablation of a focus of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia is described.

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