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The term malignant arrhythmia may cover two characteristic of any arrhythmia which are not necessarily synonymous. An arrhythmia may be malignant because it is life-threatening or because it is intractable. Life-threatening does not mean of course that the arrhythmia is intractable, but an arrhythmia can become life-threatening on a long-term basis precisely because it is intractable: “malignant” covers the two aspects of any arrhythmia that is difficult to treat and the control of which is necessary for the protection of the patient’s life on a short or a long-term basis.
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Coumel, P., Leclercq, JF., Attuel, P., Rosengarten, M., Milocevic, D. (1980). Management of Patients with Malignant Arrhythmias. In: Bircks, W., Loogen, F., Schulte, H.D., Seipel, L. (eds) Medical and Surgical Management of Tachyarrhythmias. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67597-3_5
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