[Guidelines for the performance of electrophysiologic study: are they still current?].
The aim of the present study was to reevaluate the indications to electrophysiological study after the observation of various clinical trials such as MADIT, AVID and MUSTT. In this perspective, the guidelines of 1995 surely appear to be outdated. The present paper concludes that the indications which still appear acceptable are those which support catheter ablation, those regarding syncope of unexplained origin and, until the conclusions of MADIT-II are universally accepted, the indication included in the MADIT study.
Ciaramitaro
Gianfranco
G
Cattedra di Cardiologia Università degli Studi Policlinico Paolo Giaccone Via del Vespro, 123 90123 Palermo. ekans@iol.it
Benedetto
Massimo
M
Rotolo
Antonino
A
Farinella
Michele
M
Hoffmann
Enrico
E
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic