EP News: Clinical

Willems et  al (Circulation 2020;141:1057, PMID 32000514) evaluated the outcomes of preventive ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation before implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation and deferred ablation after 3 ICD shocks for VT in a prospective randomized multicenter trial. Patients with isc hemic cardiomyopathy, left ventricular ejection fraction between 30% and 50%, and VT were randomly assigned 1:1 to 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: Tags: EP News Source Type: research