Population
48 children with ventricular tachycardia (VT) detected by school-based heart disease screening
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
2-30 years
Authors
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May support observation for idiopathic NSVT in healthy children; extends Level 3 cohort data but leaves open need for prospective validation.
Pediatric monomorphic VT with short runs (<5) detected by screening has a benign natural course and does not require treatment, whereas polymorphic VT or VT with structural heart disease has a poorer prognosis.
Iwamoto et al. (2005) studied this question.
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