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Pleomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Predicts Ventricular Tachycardia Recurrence After Ablation Independent From Cardiac Function: Comparison With Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease.

Yoshitaka KimuraMarta de RivaMicaela EbertClaire GlashanAdrianus P WijnmaalenSebastiaan R D PiersOlaf M DekkersSerge A TrinesKatja Zeppenfeld
Published in: Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology (2023)
In IHD, PL-VT was associated with low LVEF and mortality. In DCM, PL-VT was not associated with mortality but a predictor of VT recurrence independent from LVEF. PL-VT in DCM may indicate a specific arrhythmic substrate difficult to control by current ablation techniques.
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