David Žižek, Miha Mrak, Matevž Jan, Anja Zupan Mežnar, Maja Ivanovski, Tadej Žlahtič, Nina Kajdič, Bor Antolič, Luka Klemen, Rafael Skale, Jurij Avramovič Gregorič, Jernej Štublar, Andrej Pernat, Matjaž Šinkovec
BACKGROUND: Primary prevention patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and chronic total occlusion of an infarct-related coronary artery (IRA-CTO) are at a particularly high risk of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy occurrence. AIM: To evaluate the efficacy of preventive CTO-related substrate ablation strategy in ischaemic cardiomyopathy patients undergoing primary prevention ICD implantation. METHODS: The PREVENTIVE VT study was a prospective, multicenter, randomized trial including ischaemic patients with ejection fraction ≤40%, no documented VAs, and evidence of scar related to the coronary CTO...
April 24, 2024: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology