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Patients with advanced HF/COPD represent almost 10% of subjects hospitalized yearly with a primary diagnosis of HF or COPD, have similarly impaired functional status, disabling symptoms and reduced survival. Overall days spent in-hospital during the previous year, a "red flag" in the late clinical course of both diseases, might be used as a simple, reliable screening tool for appropriate transition to palliative care in the community.

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FT is not a homogeneous group of ventricular tachycardia, as patients may differ according to clinical presentation, mechanisms that are involved in the genesis of the arrhythmia and natural history; the histologic substrate is highly variable, ranging from the total absence of heart disease to severe forms of myocardial involvement.