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New drugs for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia

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Ventricular Tachycardias

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 71))

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There is a manifest need for more effective and better tolerated therapy in patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT). Electrical and surgical treatments of VT remain to be used in very special circumstances (see elsewhere in this book) and cannot be employed as a large scale preventive therapy. At the moment, they are only indicated in the case of failure of drug therapy.

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    F. Zannad, E. Aliot, K. Khalife & J. M. Gilgenkrantz

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Zannad, F., Aliot, E., Khalife, K., Gilgenkrantz, J.M. (1987). New drugs for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia. In: Aliot, E., Lazzara, R. (eds) Ventricular Tachycardias. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3323-1_26

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