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Editors-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Electrophysiologic study
The prognostic value of electrophysiologic testing in the absence of spontaneous, sustained ventricular tachycardia is limited, and in fact, the study itself may be dangerous. Sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias, predominantly rapid polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, have been induced in 27 to 43 percent of patients with HCM at electrophysiologic study, but their prognostic significance is controversial. The predictive value of asymptomatic nonsustained ventricular tachycardia is also limited. Paced electrogram fractionation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may helpful in determining which patients are at risk for ventricular fibrillation.
The absence of inducible, sustained monomorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias, absence of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia on ambulatory ECG, and no history of impaired consciousness (i.e., cardiac arrest or syncope) identified a subset (22 percent) of patients with HCM with a low (<1 percent) risk for sudden cardiac death.