• Cardiology clinics · May 2014

    Review

    Implantable defibrillators in long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

    • Mustafa Dohadwala and Mark S Link.
    • Department of Medicine, The Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington Street, Box #197, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
    • Cardiol Clin. 2014 May 1; 32 (2): 305-18.

    AbstractSudden death is often the first manifestation in inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndromes. Patients with long QT syndrome who have an episode of syncope while on beta-blockade should be offered an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). In Brugada syndrome and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, ICDs are often the most effective treatment of primary and secondary prevention of cardiac arrest. Risk stratification is crucial in identifying those at greatest risk to provide lifesaving therapy with an ICD while avoiding complications in those unlikely to receive benefit. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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