Abstract
Although death in cardiac failure is more often caused by systolic or diastolic failure, in a substantial minority of cases (approximately 40%) it occurs suddenly and presumably is arrhythmic in origin and is related to severe arrhythmias. The relative risk of ventricular arrhythmias is difficult to be predicted from only the incidence of benign premature ventricular beats since trials using antiarrhythmic drugs demonstrated that the suppression of benign ventricular premature beats had no prognostic value [1]. Several attempts have been made to obtain indices of better pronostic value, including the measurement of heart rate variability (HRV), or QT interal.
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Swynghedauw, B. et al. (1995). Phenotypic Changes in Experimental Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure in Relation to Changes in Heart Rate Variability. In: Dhalla, N.S., Pierce, G.N., Panagia, V., Beamish, R.E. (eds) Heart Hypertrophy and Failure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 169. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1237-6_8
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