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Ablation Bests Drugs for Ventricular Tachycardia After Heart Attack

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- For patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ischemic cardiomyopathy, going right to catheter ablation improved outcomes compared with trying antiarrhythmic drugs first, the VANISH2 trial showed. Death or.

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Supercharging the ECG: AI set to Revolutionize the Diagnostic Cardiology Market

DAIC

An Overnight Sensation (a century in the making) Efforts to measure the electrical activity of the heart had been well underway since the late 19th Century, though it was the Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven, improving on these prior developments, who created what we recognize as the ECG.

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Ablation or Antiarrhythmics for Ventricular Tachycardia?

CardiacWire

Late-breaking results from the VANISH2 trial presented at AHA 2024 showed that catheter ablation might be a better first-line treatment than antiarrhythmic drugs for ventricular tachycardia patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Over a median of 4.3 Over a median of 4.3