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Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg, Hamburg

PVS may be used for risk stratification before defibrillator implantataion

According to recent research from Germany, "An electrophysiological study (EPS) and a programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS) are strongly recommended and clearly indicated before the implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), if patients present with a cardiac arrest and no structural heart disease or a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy."

D. Bansch and M. Antz of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg in Hamburg continued, "In these patients the prevalence of a curable cause of the cardiac arrest, such as accessory pathways or an idiopathic ventriculartachycardia...

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