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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Freedom from sustained VT, VF or SCD in ACM This report compared 119 patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) and 75 patients with alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM). Among those with ACM, 47 abstained from alcohol consumption and 28 continued to drink. Major arrhythmic events were evaluated including sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), and sudden cardiac death (SCD), and the event-free survival for each group of patients was determined. The red line indicates patients with ACM and alcohol abstinence, the green line indicates IDCM, and the blue line indicates patients with ACM without abstinence. Compared to patients with ACM and alcohol abstinence, the relative risk of events was 8.0 for patients with ACM without abstinence and 7.3 for patients with IDCM. Reproduced with permission from: Fauchier L. Alcoholic cardiomyopathy and ventricular arrhythmias. Chest 2003; 123:1320. Copyright © 2003 American College of Chest Physicians.