Why the study?
Do acute psychological disturbances precede life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in patients referred for antiarrhythmic management?
Do acute psychological disturbances precede life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in patients referred for antiarrhythmic management?
Acute psychological disturbances precede life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in a subset of patients, particularly those with less severe structural heart disease.
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May support considering emotional triggers in arrhythmia risk assessment for milder structural disease; leaves open causal role and intervention effects.
Peter Reich (1981) studied this question.
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