2022 ESC Guidelines: management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
New insights into the epidemiology of SCD, new evidence on genetics, imaging, and clinical findings for risk stratification for VA and SCD, and advances in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic strategies made this revision necessary.
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