Preventive or Deferred Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Implantable Defibrillator (BERLIN VT): A Multicenter Randomized Trial.

Conclusions: Preventive VT ablation before ICD implantation did not reduce mortality or hospitalization for arrhythmia or worsening heart failure during 1 year of follow-up when compared to the deferred ablation strategy. Clinical Trial Registration: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02501005.
PMID: 32000514 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Circulation - January 30, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willems S, Tilz RR, Steven D, Kääb S, Wegscheider K, Geller L, Meyer C, Heeger CH, Metzner A, Sinner MF, Schlüter M, Nordbeck P, Eckardt L, Bogossian H, Sultan A, Wenzel B, Kuck KH, BERLIN VT investigators Tags: Circulation Source Type: research