RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Mustt Trial
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 113
OP 129
VO 68
IS 2
A1 Pavia, Stephen
A1 Wilkoff, Bruce L.
YR 2001
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/68/2/113.abstract
AB The Multicenter Unsustained Tachycardia Trial (MUSTT) demonstrated that electrophysiologic testing (EP)-guided therapy significantly reduces arrhythmic death and cardiac arrest in patients with coronary artery disease, a left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less, nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, and inducible ventricular arrhythmia on EP testing—but only if the therapy includes an implantable defibrillator. All patients who meet the MUSTT inclusion criteria should undergo an EP test and if positive, should undergo defibrillator implantation.