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Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia: Is It Possible to Identify the High-Risk Patients and How to Treat Them?

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Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995

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Identification of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, among those presenting with complex ventricular arrhythmias and spontaneous nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NS-VT), is of paramount importance. This chapter reviews the role of risk stratification techniques, with particular emphasis on the signal-averaged electrocardiogram (ECG) and programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS), in the management of patients with NS-VT.

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  1. Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, USA

    G. Turitto

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  1. Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale Umberto I, Via Circonvallazione 50, I-30174, Venezia Mestre, Italy

    Antonio Raviele MD

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Turitto, G. (1996). Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia: Is It Possible to Identify the High-Risk Patients and How to Treat Them?. In: Raviele, A. (eds) Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2223-2_1

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