Neal Kumar Bhatia

What if we stopped chasing VT from the surface…
and went straight to the source?

Presenting VINTAGE (intramyocardial navigation + ablation) as a late breaker at #HRS2026 tomorrow.
A new paradigm for deep substrate arrhythmias.

Ventricular Intramyocardial Navigation and Tachycardia Ablation Guided by Electrograms (VINTAGE): First-in-Human Experience with a Novel Therapy for Refractory Ventricular Arrhythmias.

Sunday April 26 12:15 PM Room SC100C, McCormick Place

@FaisalMMerchant @melchami99 @rimhalabymd @ChrisGBruce13 @ajrogers_md @BadhwarNitish @AdamGreenbaumMD @emoryhealthcare

Happy to share our work on using the Kardia Mobile device to screen patients for S-ICD implantation

"Roads...where we are going, we don't need roads."

Happy to share our work @rimhalabymd @ChrisGBruce13 using VINTAGE for intramural VAs - first in human. We demonstrated that we can successfully navigate to "inaccessible" areas such as the LV summit, deep septum, and papillary muscles and deliver successful ablation lesions. More to come on this exciting new "space" in VT!

jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

@melchami99 @FaisalMMerchant @BadhwarNitish

Congrats @rimhalabymd! Exciting developments in this area — stay tuned!!! #ablatevt @FaisalMMerchant @melchami99 @AnandShah_MD

Happy to share our work on mechanisms of VF in explanted human hearts. Thank you to @DrManiCTSurgery for helping us with this endeavor. If you could also stop doing transplants at 3 AM, then I could get some sleep :-)

tinyurl.com/2rbcbtfj

@FaisalMMerchant @melchami99