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Incidence and characteristics of ventricular tachycardia in patients after percutaneous coronary revascularization of chronic total occlusions.

Sebastian KönigEnno BoudriotArash AryaJulia-Anna LurzMarcus SandriSandra ErbsHolger ThieleGerhard HindricksBorislav Dinov
Published in: PloS one (2019)
Ventricular tachycardia can occur early after CTO-PCI as possible reperfusion arrhythmia and poorer left ventricular ejection fraction is the only independent predictor for onset. Although the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia after CTO-PCI seems not to influence mortality, awareness of this possible complication and longer monitoring may be recommended.
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