[PDF] Top 20 Mechanism of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure

... along cardiac fibers where tissue resistivity is lowest, whereas slow propagation is oriented across ...the heart, overall tissue anisotropy varies depending on age, tissue type ...to cardiac fibers ... See full document

... Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in the general population, with a prevalence of 1.5-2%, which increases with age. In addition, it occurs more frequently in males, with a male to female ratio of 1.2:1. ... See full document

... resisting arrhythmogenesis. Although the influence of CHF and aging on ventricular arrhythmias is well known, the underlying pathogenic mechanisms are not yet completely understood. Particularly, the impact of aging on ... See full document

... For patients presenting with connective tissue disorder (CTD), development of the kyphoscoliotic heart, a drop heart, typified by hypoplasia with a predominance of vertical dimensions ...the ... See full document

... high-risk patients (2), standard anti- arrhythmic drug therapy has failed to reduce, and in some instances has increased, the incidence of SCD ...in patients with clinically manifest heart disease  ... See full document

... cause cardiac toxicity [3, 4]. Some patients suf- fered sudden cardiac death or torsade de pointes after erythromycin oral administration or intravenous ...arrhythmia, cardiac ... See full document

... primary cardiac myocytes disorder that predominantly affects the right ...of sudden cardiac death in the young and in ...the heart are right ventricle in fl ow tract, right ventricular ... See full document

... in cardiac function such as congestive heart failure seen in 30% - 70% of cases, systemic thromboembolic event occurring in 7% - 38%, and stroke ...dysfunctions. Cardiac arr- hythmias can ... See full document

... unusual cardiac manifestations (Figure 4). Cardiac involvement may include electrophysiological ab- normalities resulting from long QT syndrome and a predisposition to tachyarrhythmias, including cate- ... See full document

... tained aborted SCD, we also studied 10 children with aborted SCD who came to our attention in the same period (aborted SCD group). Aborted SCD was defined as cardiac arrest with VT/ventricular fibrillation, as ... See full document

... in patients with ischemic heart disease, QT dispersion (QTd) predicts ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death and that major coronary risk factors such as smoking, diabetes ... See full document

... of heart rhythm ...in patients with advanced renal insufficiency ...or cardiac resynchro- nization in HF ...of patients after myocardial infarction ...in patients who survived ... See full document

... structural heart disorders in our cohort is partly explained by the fact that our insti- tution is a tertiary referral center and that the patients and families were mostly referred when autopsy, con- ... See full document

... of death among adults with PWS [16, 17, ...to cardiac failure were classified separately from deaths to respiratory failure, limiting comparisons with the existing ...literature. ... See full document

... pelvic or lower limb deep vein thrombosis of no appar- ent cause was a predisposing factor in one of the cases, whilst the other two had right-sided heart failure. This was closely followed by diseases of ... See full document

... of sudden death for individuals with some congenital or acquired heart ...of death affecting athletes below 35 years of ...of patients with these disorders will therefore detect a ... See full document

... in heart failure may appear otherwise well during the earlier stages because their cardiovascular physiology compensates significantly to maintain cardiac ...of sudden death due to ... See full document

... preventing cardiac disease progression and death. Patients will be randomized to receive benznidazole (5 mg/ kg per day) or matched placebo, for 60 ...of death; resuscitated cardiac ... See full document

... of heart failure with preserved and reduced systolic function demonstrates that disease progression in these two cohorts is strikingly ...studies, patients were diagnosed as having heart ... See full document

... MB patients is needed. Second, we selected patients who had undergone coronary angiography for various reasons, such as chest pain, pre-operative evaluation, or malig- nant ventricular arrhythmia, which ... See full document