Konstantinos A Gatzoulis, Dimitrios Tsiachris, Petros Arsenos, Christos-Konstantinos Antoniou, Polychronis Dilaveris, Skevos Sideris, Emmanuel Kanoupakis, Emmanouil Simantirakis, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Ioannis Goudevenos, Panagiota Flevari, Efstathios Iliodromitis, Antonios Sideris, Vassilios Vassilikos, Nikolaos Fragakis, Konstantinos Trachanas, Michail Vernardos, Ioannis Konstantinou, Konstantinos Tsimos, Iosif Xenogiannis, Konstantinos Vlachos, Athanasios Saplaouras, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Ioannis Kallikazaros, Dimitrios Tousoulis
AIMS: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) annual incidence is 0.6-1% in post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)≥40%. No recommendations for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) use exist in this population. METHODS AND RESULTS: We introduced a combined non-invasive/invasive risk stratification approach in post-MI ischaemia-free patients, with LVEF ≥ 40%, in a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study...
September 14, 2019: European Heart Journal