Cardiac Death
Mechanisms of sudden cardiac death
... Despite recent advances in preventing sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to cardiac arrhythmia, its incidence in the population at large has remained unacceptably high. Better understanding of the ...
12
Molecular and genetic basis of sudden cardiac death
... sudden cardiac death (SCD) is used to classify the mortal ...impairs cardiac pumping, thereby depriving vital organs of oxygenated ...but death is the inevitable result of sustained VF in the ...
10
Mechanism of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure
... Recent clinical trials have shown a mortality benefit from the prophylactic implantation of ICDs in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular systolic dysfunction. However, despite the mortality benefit ...
10
Presumed consent for organ preservation in uncontrolled donation after cardiac death in the United States: a public policy with serious consequences
... "brain death," equating "brain death" with human death and, in so doing, opened the way to procure organs from heart-beating donors ...by cardiac arrest, at least 22,000 ...
8
Causes of sudden cardiac death in Moscow
... Sudden cardiac death (SCD) refers to unanticipated death as a consequence of cardiac failure which takes place over a brief time period (typically within an hour of the commencement of ...
6
Plasma Cardiac Troponin I Concentration and Cardiac Death in Cats with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
... common cardiac disease in ...diac death in young ...of death because of cardiac disease include family history of cardiac death, nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, severe ...
8
Cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death registries: a systematic review of global coverage
... The registries use multiple data surveillance techniques to refine data collection (figure 3). From described methods and experiences, potential data sources are presented in table 3. Four registries (26.7%) rely ...
10
Sudden cardiac death athletes: a systematic review
... sudden cardiac death (SCD) in athletes is still a reality and it keeps challenging cardi- ...sudden death, athletes and mortality ” ...evidence cardiac congenital ...
6
Strategies for the prevention and treatment of sudden cardiac death
... Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major health problem affecting over 300,000 patients annually in the United States ...structural cardiac defects, anomalous coronary arteries, cardiomyopa- thies, ...
16
Sudden Cardiac Death in Dakar: Epidemiological and Anatomo Pathological Characteristics
... According to Januzzi et al. [50], who studied the characteristics of aortic dissections in subjects under 40 years of age, Marfan syndrome represents the first risk factor, found in 50% of the cases, followed by high ...
11
The Cumulative Incidence of Stroke, Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure and Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
... In our study, the most prescribed and used drugs for rhythm control were Amiodarone 56%, followed by digitalis 31% and beta-blockers 27%. The same drugs were used in other published studies. Lafuente-Lafuente C et al. ...
5
Cardiac genetic investigation of sudden cardiac death: advances and remaining limitations
... Figure 2 (A) HCM, subaortic stenosis: longitudinal section through the Lv from a 36-year-old man with sudden death. Prominent thickening of interventricular septum below aortic valve (*). Note endocardial ...
9
<p>A Novel Mutation Of The <em>EMD</em> Gene In A Family With Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities And A High Incidence Of Sudden Cardiac Death</p>
... predominant cardiac diseases and mild skeletal mus- cle ...of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden ...overt cardiac disease necessitating pacemaker implantation and ...
9
Sudden cardiac death in young athletes
... sudden death for individuals with some congenital or acquired heart ...of death affecting athletes below 35 years of ...sudden cardiac deaths among Swedish athletes, and thus appears to be worth ...
13
Linoleic acid and sudden cardiac death
... during that month, they established that 299 men had died within 24 hours o f the onset of symptoms. All of these were reported to have been well prior to their last illness. In this group there were 215 of 299 (71.9%) ...
239
<p>Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia: Mechanisms and Management</p>
... nucleus to facilitate and aid in the recognition and transcrip- tion of target genes by binding to TCF/LEF complexes. 28 Plakoglobin (AKA γ -catenin) is one of the desmosomal pro- teins similar in properties to β ...
11
High Prevalence and Clinical Implication of Myocardial Bridging in Patients with Early Repolarization
... cardiac death. Third, too small number of subjects underwent cardiac MRI or SPECT to detect myocardial ischemia which might help explain the cause of ER in patients with ...
8
Cardiac Arrhythmia and Geomagnetic Activity
... threatening cardiac arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the level of environmental physical activity factors like geomagnetic activity (GMA) and opposite them cosmic ray and high energy ...
5
Clinical utility of the revised cardiac risk index in older Chinese patients with known coronary artery disease
... major cardiac event (PoMCE) within 30 days. PoMCEs were defined as cardiac death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal cardiac arrest, and heart ...
7
Old and New Concepts in Brain Death: A Medico-Legal Overview
... of cardiac death to meet the growing demand of organs for transplantation raises some obvious ethical issues that have neither being unveiled nor touched upon to appease the concerns of intellectual ...
6