Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease results in> 19 million deaths annually, and coronary
heart disease accounts for the majority of this toll. Despite major advances in treatment of …

ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and
the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Report of the American College of …

Although sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most important modes of death in
Western countries, pathologists and public health physicians have not given this problem …

ESC Guidelines 3039 administrative staff and by the referees and supervisory committees of
the two organizations. It is our hope that this huge effort has generated guidelines that will …

The online-only Data Supplement is available with this article at http://circ. ahajournals.
org/lookup/suppl/doi: 10.1161/CIR. 0b013e318276ce9b/-/DC1. The online-only …

Objectives: This study sought to identify the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) associated
with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Background: Risk stratification for SCD, a major cause …

Brugada syndrome is a rare cardiac arrhythmia disorder, causally related to SCN5A
mutations in around 20% of cases,,. Through a genome-wide association study of 312 …

ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities:
A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on …

Abstract Ca V 1.2, the cardiac L-type calcium channel, is important for excitation and
contraction of the heart. Its role in other tissues is unclear. Here we present Timothy …

Background Mutations in potassium-channel genes KCNQ1 (LQT1 locus) and KCNH2
(LQT2 locus) and the sodium-channel gene SCN5A (LQT3 locus) are the most common …