Commentary Open Access
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/cardiology.7.097
Do We Need ICDs for Prevention of SCD in Patients with Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia? – Only Time Will Tell!
Jakub Tomala1,*, Christopher Kowalewski1, Ilkin Maharramli1, Thomas Winkler1, Arno P. Bößenecker1, Andrea Brinker-Paschke1, Matthias Pauschinger2, Thomas Deneke1,*
- 1Clinic for Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology, Nuremberg Clinic, University Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
- 2Clinic for Cardiology, Nuremberg Clinic, University Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Corresponding Author
Thomas Deneke, thomas.deneke@rub.de; Jakub Tomala, Jakub.Tomala@klinikum-nuernberg.de
Received Date: January 20, 2026
Accepted Date: April 06, 2026
Tomala J, Kowalewski C, Maharramli I, Winkler T, Bößenecker AP, Paschke AB, et al. Do We Need ICDs for Prevention of SCD in Patients with Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia? – Only Time Will Tell!. J Clin Cardiol. 2026;7(2):95–100.
Copyright: © 2026 Tomala J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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