Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: terminology, mechanism, diagnosis, and emergency therapy

S Viskin, E Chorin, D Viskin, A Hochstadt… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias are highly lethal arrhythmias. Several types of
polymorphic ventricular tachycardia have similar electrocardiographic characteristics but …

EHRA expert consensus statement on arrhythmic mitral valve prolapse and mitral annular disjunction complex in collaboration with the ESC Council on valvular heart …

A Sabbag, B Essayagh, JDR Barrera, C Basso… - Europace, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Risk stratification scheme. Risk stratification aiming at assessing the risk of VAs and SCD in
patients with MVP, involving two phases based on the clinical and imaging context and the …

[HTML][HTML] Short-coupled idiopathic ventricular fibrillation: a literature review with extended follow-up

B Belhassen, O Tovia-Brodie - JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is responsible for approximately 5%-7% of cases of aborted
cardiac arrest. Recent studies have shown that short-coupled ventricular premature …

Multidisciplinary Critical Care Management of Electrical Storm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

JC Jentzer, PA Noseworthy, AH Kashou… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - jacc.org
Electrical storm (ES) reflects life-threatening cardiac electrical instability with 3 or more
ventricular arrhythmia episodes within 24 hours. Identification of underlying arrhythmogenic …

Recent insights into mechanisms and clinical approaches to electrical storm

I Elsokkari, Y Tsuji, JL Sapp, S Nattel - Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrical storm, characterized by repetitive ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation
over a short period, is becoming more common with widespread use of implantable …

Ventricular arrhythmias in acute heart failure: a clinical consensus statement of the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care, the European Heart Rhythm …

B Gorenek, AP Wijnmaalen, A Goette, GO Mert… - Europace, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Patients presenting with or alerting emergency networks due to acute heart failure (AHF)
form a diverse group with a plethora of symptoms, risks, comorbidities, and aetiologies …

Exome sequencing highlights a potential role for concealed cardiomyopathies in youthful sudden cardiac death

R Neves, DJ Tester, MA Simpson, ER Behr… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and sudden unexplained death (SUD) are feared
sequelae of many genetic heart diseases. In rare circumstances, pathogenic variants in …

Nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation at a selected training hospital in Namibia: a cross-sectional survey

N Tomas, ZA Kachekele - SAGE Open Nursing, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Nurses play a key role in cases of cardiopulmonary arrest by promptly attending
to and initiating cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation thus …

Malignant Purkinje ectopy induced by sodium channel blockers

W Escande, JB Gourraud, M Haissaguerre… - Heart Rhythm, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Sodium channel blocker (SCB) infusion is used to unmask the
electrocardiographic pattern of Brugada syndrome. The test may also induce premature …

Importance of systematic diagnostic testing in idiopathic ventricular fibrillation: results from the Dutch iVF registry

SA Groeneveld, LM Verheul, MH van der Ree… - Clinical …, 2023 - jacc.org
Background Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (iVF) is a diagnosis of exclusion. Systematic
diagnostic testing is important to exclude alternative causes for VF. The early use of “high …