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This review summarizes current management strategies for arrhythmias, highlighting the expanding role of catheter ablation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators for sudden cardiac death prevention.
This review provides an overview of modern management strategies for various arrhythmias, emphasizing the growing importance of catheter ablation and device therapy.
Highlights evolving arrhythmia strategies with ablation emphasis; leaves open need for updated RCTs on rhythm versus rate control.
The specialist management of arrhythmias has changed significantly over the past decade. This article outlines current management strategies for atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation, with particular emphasis on curative strategies with catheter ablation and the recent data on rhythm compared with rate control strategies. The expanding role of catheter ablation in the treatment of a wide variety of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias is discussed. The current evidence for implantable cardioverter defibrillators in the prevention of sudden cardiac death is summarised. The article also highlights the increasing recognition of a number of inherited syndromes that predispose to sudden cardiac death (for example, Brugada and long QT syndromes).
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Hall et al. (2006) conducted a review in Arrhythmias. Catheter ablation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators was evaluated. This review summarizes current management strategies for arrhythmias, highlighting the expanding role of catheter ablation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators for sudden cardiac death prevention.
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