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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2015 Jun 5;116(12):2005–2019. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.304679

Table 2.

Disease specific treatment by sympathetic of parasympathetic modulation to prevent sudden cardiac death

Disease Trigger Treatment
Ventircular tachyarrhythmias
  Ischemia & myocardial infarction Sympathetic BB, ARB, ACE-I, aspirin, RFCA, ICD, BCSD
Cardiomyopathy
DCM Sympathetic BB, ARB, ACE-I, III, ICD, BCSD
HCM Sympathetic BB, Ca-B, III, ICD, BCSD
ARVC Sympathetic BB, ARB, ACE-I, III, ICD, BCSD
Arrhythmia
Long QT syndrome
  LQT1 Sympathetic BB, LCSD
  LQT2 Sympathetic BB, LCSD?
  LQT3 Parasympathetic Mexiletine, pacemaker, ICD
Brugada Syndrome Parasympathetic Quinidine, isoproterenol, ICD BB?, ICD
Idiopathic VF Sympathetic/Parasympathetic BB?, ICD Quinidine, isoproterenol, ICD
CPVT Sympathetic BB, flecainide, LCSD

BB=beta blocker, Ca-B= calcium channel blocker, ACE-I=angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, ICD=implantable cardioverter defibrillator, I,II= class I II and III anti arrhythmics, RFCA=radiofrequency catheter ablation, BCSD=bilateral cardiac sympathectomy, LCSD=left cardiac sympathectomy,