Why the study?
Does myocardial revascularization reduce the inducibility of ventricular arrhythmias and prevent long-term arrhythmic events in patients with coronary artery disease presenting with malignant ventricular arrhythmias?
Population
56 patients with coronary artery disease who presented with ventricular tachycardia or ventricular…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 28 ± 21 months
Authors
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Revascularization may suppress inducibility in select ischemic VT patients; leaves open its standalone role versus ablation or ICD for event prevention.
Does myocardial revascularization reduce the inducibility of ventricular arrhythmias and prevent long-term arrhythmic events in patients with coronary artery disease presenting with malignant ventricular arrhythmias?
Myocardial revascularization alone can render previously inducible ventricular arrhythmias noninducible in a subset of patients, with a low rate of sudden death during long-term follow-up.
Manolis et al. (1993) studied this question.
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