The Prognostic Role of Programmed Ventricular Stimulation in the Risk Stratification of Sudden Cardiac Death.

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular death in general population. SCD primary prevention requires the correct selection of patients at increased risk who may benefit from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Despite several non-invasive arrhythmic risk indexes are available, their ability to stratify the SCD risk among asymptomatic patients with cardiac disease at increased arrhythmic risk is debated. The programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS) is an invasive approach historically used for SCD risk stratification in patients with acquired or inherited cardiac disease and is currently included in international guidelines. Aim of this review is to summarize all available data about the role of PVS for the SCD risk stratification in different clinical settings.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest. Saverio Muscoli, Giuseppe Mascia and Vincenzo Russo are serving as Guest Editors of this journal. We declare that Saverio Muscoli, Giuseppe Mascia and Vincenzo Russo had no involvement in the peer review of this article and have no access to information regarding its peer review. Full responsibility for the editorial process for this article was delegated to Bernard Belhassen.
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