Table 3.

Long-term treatment effect of ES in study population, ablated (group A) and no ablated (group B) group

	N = 70	Group A (n = 28)	Group B (n = 42)	p
Ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation recurrence	47 (67.1%)	16 (57.1%)	31 (73.8%)	0.15
Recurrence of an electrical storm	28 (40%)	9 (32.1%)	19 (45.2%)	0.28
Number of subsequent electrical storms	0.8 ± 1.48	0.43 ± 0.69	1.05 ± 1.79	0.09
In-hospital death	4 (5.7%)	1 (3.6%)	3 (7.1%)	0.54
All-cause death	20 (28.6%)	4 (14.3%)	16 (38.1%)	0.03
Organ heart transplantation	1 (1.4%)	1 (3.6%)	0 (0%)	0.22
Composite of all-cause death, electrical storm recurrence and ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation recurrence	57 (81.4%)	21 (75%)	36 (85.7%)	0.27