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What are your criteria for deciding if a patient who had VF arrest in the setting of subacute myocarditis requires ICD or long term WCD?

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Cardiology · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

This is a complex question with multiple variables. In general, if the patient had a VF arrest, then we are no longer talking about primary prevention, this would be a secondary prevention indication. For me, I would want to identify a reversible cause with reasonable expectation that the VF episode...

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