Do Defibrillators Help For My Newly Diagnosed Ventricular Tachycardia?
Dr. Dickfeld answers the question: 'Defibrillators For Ventricular Tachycardia?'
— -- Question: Do defibrillators help for my newly diagnosed ventricular tachycardia?
Answer :As we talked a little bit before, patients that are young and have a structurally normal heart, a healthy heart -- defibrillators are normally not a good treatment strategy and one would rather use ablations.
However, the latter part of the populations that have ventricular tachycardia have these because they had a previous heart attack and they have a scar inside the heart.
And we now have more than one or two decades of experience showing that in those patients defibrillators indeed help a lot and prolong life for those patients. So, in patients that have an abnormal heart muscle and that have ventricular tachycardia, normally defibrillators are the main treatment strategy.
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