EP News Clinical May 2020

Willems and colleagues (Circulation. 2020;141(13):1057-1067. PMID:32000514) evaluated the outcomes of preventive VT ablation prior to ICD implantation and deferred ablation after 3 ICD shocks for VT in a prospective randomized multicenter trial. Patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, a left ventricular ejection fraction between 30% and 50%, and VT were randomly assigned 1:1 to a either strategy. The primary outcome was a composite of death and hospitalization for symptomatic ventricular arrhythmia or worsening heart failure.
Source: Heart Rhythm - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research