13th International Congress
THE "NEW FRONTIERS"
OF ARRHYTHMIAS 1998

January 24-31, 1998
Marilleva, Trento, Italy

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Predictors of non sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with chronic congestive heart failure undergoing 24-hour Holter monitoring

Claudio Fresco, Alessandro Proclemer, Maria Cecilia Albanese, Donata Lucci*, Marco Gorini*, Aldo Pietro Maggioni*, Anna Linda Cuzzato, Paolo Maria Fioretti, a nome dei ricercatori IN-CHF.
Istituto di Cardiologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine,
*Centro Studi ANMCO, Florence, Italy

Patients and methods

The Italian Network for Congestive Heart Failure (IN-CHF) is the result of the joint efforts of 108 departments of Cardiology who agreed to include prospectively the patients referred for heart failure in a national data base. At the moment more than 5500 patients have been admitted and are routinely seen on regular basis. From the national database for congestive heart failure patients, we selected those who underwent 24-hour Holter monitoring at the time of admission visit or immediately before. Major clinical and epidemiological variables were tested in univariate and multivariate analysis in order to identify the predictors of non sustained ventricular tachycardia.

Non sustained ventricular tachycardia was defined as a run of three or more ventricular beats lasting less than thirty seconds.