Publications by authors named "Apostolis Vouliotis"
Prognostic value of programmed ventricular stimulation for sudden death in selected high risk patients with structural heart disease and preserved systolic function.
Konstantinos A Gatzoulis Dimitris Tsiachris Petros Arsenos Stefanos Archontakis Polychronis Dilaveris Apostolis Vouliotis
Int J Cardiol
October 2014
Implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy activation for high risk patients with relatively well preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Does it really work?
Konstantinos A Gatzoulis Dimitris Tsiachris Polichronis Dilaveris Stefanos Archontakis Petros Arsenos Apostolis Vouliotis
Int J Cardiol
August 2013
Background: Current guidelines for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death have used a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 35% as a critical point to justify implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation in post myocardial infarction patients and in those with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. We compared mortality and ICD activation rates among different ICD group recipients using a cut-off value for LVEF ≤ 35%.
Methods: We followed up for a mean period of 41.