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- Title
Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy as an Adjunct or Alternative to An Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator.
- Authors
Prystowsky, Eric N.
- Abstract
The article focuses on antiarrhythmic drug therapy as an adjunct or alternative to an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Use of antiarrhythmic drugs in patients with life-threatening arrhythmias requires some method to determine antiarrhythmic efficacy prior to hospital discharge. The overwhelming majority of patients who present with sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia have their clinical arrhythmia initiated at electrophysiological study, especially those with coronary artery disease. Thus, most of these individuals are candidates for electrophysiological-pharmacological testing and our approach is to try drug therapy initially in almost all such individuals.
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1992, Vol 15, Issue 4, p678
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1992.tb05162.x