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Survival after sustained
monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: a role of aetiology of heart disease, left
ventricular function, morphology of
QRS-tachycardia, clinical presentation:
a follow-up up to 12 years
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N. Baldi, V. Morrone, V.A. Russo,
G. Polimeni.
Department of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedale S.S. Annunziata, Taranto, Italy
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Abstract
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The monomorphic sustained ventricular tachycardia
(MSVT) is considered as an arrhythmia in which the importance of the prognosis depends on
the different aetiology of the heart disease - the prognosis is more severe in patients
with an ischemic heart disease or with a non ischemic heart disease, compared with MSVT
patients without a detectable heart disease or with a right ventricular disease1 -, and on the left ventricular function (mostly
evaluated in patients after myocardial infarction).
There are few data about the role of the clinical presentation of arrhythmia and the
QRS-tachycardia morphology. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of patients
with MSVT according to the aetiology of the heart disease, the degree of the left
ventricular dysfunction, the QRS-tachycardia morphology and the clinical presentation of
the arrhythmia during a long-term follow-up.
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Key Words
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Treatment of arrhythmias - Pharmacological
management of malignant ventricular arrhythmias
monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, survival, aetiology of heart disease, left
ventricular function, QRS-tachycardia morphology, clinical presentation, OA
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