Heart failure & cardiomyopathies

Drug therapy and catheter ablation for management of arrhythmias in continuous flow left ventricular assist device’s patients: a Clinical Consensus Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Failure Association of the ESC

EuropacePublished Clinical consensus statement

An erratum to this article was published (Europace, 7 May 2025 ↗)

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Rule out reversible causes of arrhythmias, which in LVAD patients may include mechanical irritation from the inflow cannula and suction events

  2. For symptomatic arrhythmias refractory to medical treatment, catheter ablation might be relevant

  3. The peri-implantation period offers a unique opportunity to surgically address arrhythmogenic substrate and suppress future ventricular tachycardia (VT) recurrences

Original publication

Drug therapy and catheter ablation for management of arrhythmias in continuous flow left ventricular assist device’s patients: a Clinical Consensus Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Failure Association of the ESC. Europace. Published 31 October 2024. doi:10.1093/europace/euae272

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