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Ventricular fibrillation (VF) in the absence of structural heart disease is classified as ’idiopathic ventricular fibrillation’or ’primary electrical disease’. In those cases the arrhythmogenic substrate should in principle be looked for in the excitation and conduction properties of the heart. However, some minimal abnormalities are considered compatible with idiopathic VF (table 1) [1]. Moreover, it should be realized that even with all currently available highly sophisticated diagnostic techniques discrete structural abnormalities might be overlooked. Careful follow-up might indeed unmask structural heart disease in these patients.
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Wilde, A.A. (2001). Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation. In: Doevendans, P.A., Wilde, A.A.M. (eds) Cardiovascular Genetics for Clinicians. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 239. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1019-1_14
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