ROLE OF PROGRAMMED VENTRICULAR STIMULATION IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY AND DOCUMENTED SUSTAINED VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIAS - INDUCIBILITY AND PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN 102 PATIENTS

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作者
CHEN, X [1 ]
SHENASA, M [1 ]
BORGGREFE, M [1 ]
BLOCK, M [1 ]
HINDRICKS, G [1 ]
MARTINEZRUBIO, A [1 ]
HAVERKAMP, W [1 ]
WILLEMS, S [1 ]
BOCKER, D [1 ]
MAKIJARVI, M [1 ]
BREITHARDT, G [1 ]
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[1] WESTFAL WILHELMS UNIV HOSP,INST RES ATHEROSCLEROSIS,D-48149 MUNSTER,GERMANY
关键词
IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY; PROGRAMMED VENTRICULAR STIMULATION; SUDDEN DEATH; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR;
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10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a060383
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
The role of programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS) in patients at high risk of sudden death related to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is still controversial The possible reason is that most study series have been too small or that only a few patients had documented sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias.This study therefore, looked at PVS performed in 102 patients with DCM and documented sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT; n=63) or ventricular fibrillation (VF; n=39). Sustained VT was induced in 27 of 63 patients (43%) with documented sustained VT and in 14 of 39 patients (36%) with documented VF (ns). VF was induced in nine patients (14%) with a history of sustained VT and in seven (18%) with a history of VF (ns). At a mean follow-up of 32±15 months, sudden death occurred in 14 (14%) patients, a rate similar in both patients with documented VT and VF (ns). Incidence of sudden death at 36 months was 6% in patients with inducible sustained VT/VF compared to 29% in patients without inducible VT/VF (P<0·05) A favourable drug regimen (response to drug and no intolerable side effects) was obtained by serial drug testing in 25 of all 102 patients (25%). A cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) was implanted in 32 patients, in 63% of whom discharges were observed during 18±11 months of follow-up; only one patient (3%) died suddenly.Thus, in patients with DCM, there was no relationship between documented and inducible ventricular tachzyarrhythmias, and initiation of sustained VT or VF had little prognostic value for the prediction of subsequent sudden death.Wherever antiarrhythmic drug therapy was of limited value, implantation of an ICD may improve the prognosis of these high risk patients. © 1994 The European Society of Cardiology.
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