Comparison of event rates and survival in patients with unexplained syncope without documented ventricular tachyarrhythmias versus patients with documented sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias both treated with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Comparison of event rates and survival in patients with unexplained syncope without documented ventricular tachyarrhythmias versus patients with documented sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias both treated with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.

AU - Pires, Luis A

AU - May, Lynette M

AU - Ravi, Srihari

AU - Parry, J.Thomas

AU - Lal, Vinit R

AU - Nino, Charles L

N1 - Patients with unexplained syncope and inducible ventricular tachyarrhythmias during electrophysiologic testing have an increased cardiac mortality rate. We compared event rates and survival of 178 patients with unexplained syncope and no documented ventricular arrhythmias (syncope group) versus 568 patients with documented sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT or fibrillation (VF) (VT/VF group) treated, as part of a lead (Ventritex TVL) investigation, with similar implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) capable of extensive data storage.

PY - 2000/3/15

Y1 - 2000/3/15

UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12000047

U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00848-6

DO - 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00848-6

M3 - Article

SN - 1879-1913

VL - 85

JO - American Journal of Cardiology

JF - American Journal of Cardiology

IS - 6

ER -