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Antitachycardia Pacing

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 129))

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Non-pharmacologic treatment of arrhythmias is very attractive for various reasons. Antiarrhythmic drug therapy has several disadvantages, as side effects are common and the therapy is sometimes worse than the disease. A lot of attention has recently been given to proarrhythmic side effects of antiarrhythmic drugs [1]. Furthermore, when we are dealing with a disease with paroxysmal behaviour, drug therapy poses additional problems. [2, 3]. It is a general experience that it is very difficult to convince young patients to remain compliant to the prescribed therapy. When we are facing elderly patients with structural heart disease, and suffering from potentially lethal arrhythmias, the problem of drug compliance becomes even more important [4].

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  1. Department of Cardiology, O.L.V. Hospital, Aalst, Belgium

    Erik Andries  & Pedro Brugada  & 

  2. Department of Cardiology, St Jozef Hospital, Oostende, Belgium

    Roland Stroobandt

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Jordaens, L., Vertongen, P., van Wassenhove, E., Clement, D.L. (1992). Antitachycardia Pacing. In: Andries, E., Brugada, P., Stroobandt, R. (eds) How to face ‘the faces’ of Cardiac Pacing. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 129. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2582-6_9

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