Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator use in patients with left ventricular assist device: prediction of ventricular arrhythmia using the VT-LVAD score

The findings of our study are exploratory and hypothesis-generating; while the VT-LVAD score identifies patients at higher early arrhythmic risk, long-term malignant VAs were rare in both groups, and no survival benefit of ICD therapy can be derived from this study.