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Ventricular tachycardias above the initially programmed tachycardia detection interval in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Incidence, prediction and significance

Dietmar Bänsch, MD, Marco Castrucci, MD^*, Dirk Böcker, MD^*, G.ünter Breithardt, MD, FACC, FESC^* and Michael Block, MD

^* Department of Cardiology/Angiology and Institute for Research in Arteriosclerosis, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Krankenhaus Augustinum, München, Germany

View larger version (23K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Risk of VTs above the programmed tachycardia detection interval.

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Risk of VTs above the programmed tachycardia detection interval and spontaneous ventricular tachycardias before ICD implantation. pres. mVT = presenting monomorphic ventricular tachycardia.

View larger version (30K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Risk of VTs above the programmed tachycardia detection interval and inducible tachycardias. ind. MVT = inducible monomorphic VT; VF = ventricular fibrillation; VT = ventricular tachycardia.

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Figure 4 Risk of VTs above the initially programmed tachycardia detection interval and presence of risk predictors (inducible monomorphic VTs, NYHA class II + III, amiodarone).