Prognostic Relevance of Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension

Background. Increased pulmonary vascular resistance in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) leads to an increased afterload of right heart and cardiac remodeling which could provide the substrate or trigger for arrhythmias. Supraventricular arrhythmias were associated with clinical deterioratio...

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Main Authors: Dirk Bandorski, Harilaos Bogossian, Johanna Stempfl, Werner Seeger, Matthias Hecker, Ardeschir Ghofrani, Reinhard Hoeltgen, Henning Gall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1327265