European perspective: Comparing the AHA/ACC and ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

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In this issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, the “Guidelines in Review” series provides a comparison of the AHA/ACC and ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death.1 Of note, the ESC guidelines committee specifically mentions in its introduction that their guidelines from 20152 should be seen as a European update of the 2006 AHA/ACC guidelines, which at that time were a joint effort together with ESC.3 AHA/ACC have not come up with a specific update of those guidelines to date. For this reason, Velasco and colleagues included recommendations from other, more recent AHA/ACC guidelines on heart failure,4 implantable electronic devices,5 and congenital heart disease6 in their comparison. …