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To the Editor: As participants in the Multicenter Unsustained Tachycardia Trial, we are concerned that the tone of the article by Buxton et al. (June 29 issue)¹ did not reflect what we believe to be the marked inadequacy of the use of a negative electrophysiologic study for risk stratification (with respect to the need for an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator) among patients who have coronary artery disease, a left ventricular ejection fraction of 40 percent or less, and asymptomatic, unsustained ventricular tachycardia.

The two-year and five-year rates of cardiac arrest or death from arrhythmia were 12 percent and 24 percent, respectively, among . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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