title: [Management of patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmia: anti-arrhythmia agents or defibrillator?].
authors.affiliation: II Innere Medizin, Allgemeines Krankenhaus St Georg, Kardiologie Abteilung, Universität Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cappato
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kuck
mesh_terms: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D003645:Death, Sudden; D003657:Decision Making; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D012008:Recurrence; D013318:Stroke Volume; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
vernacular_title: Terapia nei pazienti con aritmie ventricolari sostenute: farmaci antiaritmici o defibrillatore?