Ventricular arrhythmias in left ventricular hypertrophy and heart failure.
The significance of ventricular hypertrophy in the genesis of ventricular tachyarrhythmias cannot be over-emphasized. Left ventricular hypertrophy, as a consequence of arterial hypertension, influences the three factors involved in the prognosis and we express these as a triangle of risk: electrical instability, left ventricular dysfunction and ischaemia.
Bayés de Luna
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Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Viñolas Prat
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Guindo
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D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000150:complications*; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications; D012307:Risk Factors; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology*