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

Conclusions

Non sustained ventricular tachycardia is frequently found in patients with congestive heart failure, although the prevalence of this arrhythmia is somewhat lower than expected if the patients are exposed to the recommended treatments for the underlying heart failure. Frequent VPB, low systolic blood pressure, third heart sound are independent predictors of NSVT. A sistematic follow-up of these patients is currently underway and soon prognostic data will be available.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Paola Zanessi for technical assistance.