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Arrhythmias After Tetralogy of Fallot Repair

Folino, Antonio Franco and Daliento, Luciano (2005) Arrhythmias After Tetralogy of Fallot Repair. [Journal (Paginated)]

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Abstract

Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease, with a good outcome after total surgical correction. In spite of a low perioperative mortality and a good quality of life, late sudden death remains a significant clinical problem, mainly related to episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Fibro-fatty substitution around infundibular resection, intraventricular septal scar, and patchy myocardial fibrosis, may provide anatomical substrates of abnormal depolarization and repolarization causing reentrant ventricular arrhythmias. Several non-invasive indices based on classical examination such as ECG, signal-averaging ECG, and echocardiography have been proposed to identify patients at high risk of sudden death, with hopeful results. In the last years other more sophisticated invasive and non-invasive tools, such as heart rate variability, electroanatomic mapping and cardiac magnetic resonance added a relevant contribution to risk stratification. Even if each method per se is affected by some limitations, a comprehensive multifactorial clinical and investigative examination can provide an accurate risk evaluation for every patient

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:Tetralogy of Fallot, surgery; ventricular arrhythmias; risk stratification
Subjects:JOURNALS > Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
ID Code:4598
Deposited By: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology, Journal
Deposited On:12 Nov 2005
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:56

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