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Europace 2009 11(11):1536-1537; doi:10.1093/europace/eup340
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

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Sudden cardiac death stratification in asymptomatic ventricular preexcitation

Francesco Cantú1,*, Andreas Goette2,* on behalf of the EHRA Scientific Initiatives Committee (SIC)

1 Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Department, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Largo Barozzi 1, 24128 Bergamo, Italy; 2 Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

The second survey deals with risk stratification in subjects, either adults or children, with ventricular preexcitation and no symptoms in their history. Current European electrophysiological practice is still variable among different centres. Although invasive stratification is still part of the practical management of asymptomatic subjects, a not negligible proportion of physicians do not completely rely on cut off values provided in the literature, proceding to ablation irrespective of the stratification process. These concerns are mainly due to the perception of lack of strong evidence that, according to the majority of centres, is still needed.

Key Words: Sudden death, Preexcitation

* Corresponding author. Email: fcantu{at}ospedaliriuniti.bergamo.it (F.C.); andreas.goette{at}medizin.uni-magdeburg.de (A.G.)


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