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  • Title: [Prognostic value of ventricular arrhythmias].
    Author: Vergara G.
    Journal: Ital Heart J Suppl; 2001 Dec; 2(12):1291-5. PubMed ID: 11838350.
    Abstract:
    In patients with heart failure ventricular arrhythmias correlate with the functional class and thus they are a marker of heart disease severity. An "independent" prognostic value of ventricular arrhythmias is generally accepted in post-infarction patients, but it is controversial in the presence of other heart diseases. According to the results of the MADIT and MUSTT studies the prognostic significance can be improved in post-infarction patients with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia during an electrophysiologic study aimed to evaluate the inducibility of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias with programmed electrical stimulation: in the "non-inducible" patients the prognosis is better than in "inducible" patients. Thus, we suggest to perform an electrophysiological evaluation in post-infarction patients and in patients with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia.
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