2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
European Heart JournalPublished 29 August 2015Open access
Silvia G. Priori, C. Blomström‐Lundqvist, Andrea Mazzanti, Nico Blom, Martin Borggrefe, A. John Camm
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323 Citations2011Carla Giustetto, Rainer Schimpf +10 more
Investigation of the clinical characteristics and the long-term course of a large cohort of patients with short QT syndrome found HQ is effective in preventing ventricular tachyarrhythmia induction and arrhythmic events during long- term follow-up.
Circulation Arrhythmia and ElectrophysiologyIdiopathic Ventricular Arrhythmias Originating From the Left Ventricular Summit
323 Citations2010Takumi Yamada, H. Thomas McElderry +9 more
LV summit VAs may be ablated within the GCV or inferior to theGCV on the epicardial surface, though sites superior to the GCv are usually inaccessible to ablation.
CirculationIdiopathic sustained left ventricular tachycardia: clinical and electrophysiologic characteristics.
318 Citations1988Tohru Ohe, Katsuro Shimomura +6 more
Journal of the American College of CardiologySudden death in mitral regurgitation due to flail leaflet
317 Citations1999Francesco Grigioni, Maurice Enriquez‐Sarano +5 more
Sudden death is relatively common in patients with MR-FL who are conservatively managed and Correction of MR appears to be associated with a reduced incidence of SUD, warranting early consideration of surgical repair.
CirculationEffect of QRS Duration and Morphology on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Outcomes in Mild Heart Failure
315 Citations2012Michael R. Gold, Christophe Thébault +6 more
It is demonstrated that LBBB and QRS prolongation are markers of reverse remodeling and clinical benefit with CRT in mild heart failure and the change in QRS duration with pacing was not an independent predictor of any outcomes after correction for baseline variables.
The American Journal of CardiologyRandomized antiarrhythmic drug therapy in survivors of cardiac arrest (the CASCADE study)
308 Citations1993The CASCADE Investigators
The Cardiac Arrest in Seattle: Conventional Versus Amiodarone Drug Evaluation (CASCADE) study evaluated antiarrhythmic drug treatment of survivors of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation not associated with a Q-wave myocardial infarction who were at especially high risk of recurrence of VF.
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304 Citations2003Sachiko Ito, Hiroshi Tada +8 more
An ECG algorithm is developed to predict the origin of OT‐VT and the accuracy of the algorithm is tested prospectively to test prospectively the accuracyof the algorithm.
HeartHistorical trends in reported survival rates in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
295 Citations2005Perry Elliott, J R Gimeno +6 more
HeartThe fate of acute myocarditis between spontaneous improvement and evolution to dilated cardiomyopathy: a review
291 Citations2001Antonio D’Ambrosio
Despite numerous published reports on this disease, the natural history of acute myocarditis is still poorly understood, despite the development of immunological diagnosis criteria, and the finding of a possible causal relation between viralMyocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy, a major cause of congestive heart failure in western countries.
Journal of the American College of CardiologyPrevention of Sudden Cardiac Death With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Children and Adolescents With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
286 Citations2013Barry J. Maron, Paolo Spirito +23 more
In a high-risk pediatric HCM cohort, ICD interventions terminating life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias were frequent and extreme left ventricular hypertrophy was the most common risk factor present in patients experiencing primary prevention interventions.
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286 Citations2008Jonathan N. Johnson, Nynke Hofman +4 more
A diagnostic consideration of epilepsy and treatment with antiepileptic drug medications was more common in patients with LQT2, raising the possibility that L QT2-causing perturbations in the KCNH2-encoded potassium channel may confer susceptibility for recurrent seizure activity.
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285 Citations2000Akihiko Nogami, Shigeto Naito +9 more
This study demonstrates that P1 and P2 are critical potentials in a circuit of verapamil-sensitive ILVT and suggests the presence of a macroreentry circuit involving the normal Purkinje system and the abnormalPurkinje tissue with decremental property and verap amil-sensitivity.
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