What is the diagnostic value of the mode of onset of malignant ventricular arrhythmias in patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation?
Documentation of a non-pause dependent polymorphic VT provides diagnostic value in identifying the distinctive mode of onset of cardiac arrest in idiopathic VF.
Cardiac arrest among patients with idiopathic VF has a very distinctive mode of onset. Documentation of a polymorphic VT that is not pause dependent is of diagnostic value.
Viskin et al. (Wed,) studied this question.