Publications by authors named "Gijs F L Kapel"
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluates the effectiveness of genetic testing in patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF) to uncover potential genetic causes of their condition.
- Among 419 patients, 379 underwent genetic testing, revealing that 15% had likely pathogenic variants, primarily linked to the DPP6 gene.
- The results suggest the need for a dedicated gene panel for idiopathic VF patients due to the high occurrence of variants of uncertain significance, especially with broad panel testing.
Background: Noninducibility is frequently used as procedural end point of ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation after myocardial infarction. We investigated the influence of left ventricular (LV) function on the predictive value of noninducibility for VT recurrence and cardiac mortality.
Methods And Results: Ninety-one patients (82 men, 67±10 years) with post-myocardial infarction VT underwent ablation between 2009 and 2012.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the use of the electrocardiogram-derived ventricular gradient, projected on the x-axis (VGx), for detection of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and for prediction of all-cause mortality in PH patients.
Methods: In patients referred for PH screening (n = 216), the VGx was calculated semiautomatically from the electrocardiogram and was defined as abnormal when less than 24 mV · ms. The VGx of PH patients was compared with the VGx of patients without PH.