Multicenter Unsustained Tachycardia Trial (MUSTT)

Launched by NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE (NHLBI) · Oct 27, 1999

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ClinConnect Summary

BACKGROUND:

Cardiac arrest (sudden cardiac death) occurs relatively frequently in asymptomatic patients who have had myocardial infarctions, have ejection fractions less than 40 percent, and non-sustained ventricular tachycardia. However, it is not possible to predict who will die suddenly or when cardiac arrest will occur. Current efforts to reduce sudden death in such long-term survivors of myocardial infarction or in patients with coronary disease have produced results that are not very encouraging.

Such patients may feel quite well. They survived their myocardial infarction and may ha...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• • Men and women patients with documented coronary artery disease, ejection fraction less than or equal to 40 percent, and nonsustained asymptomatic ventricular tachycardia.

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