Survival with ICD or Antiarrhythmic Therapy. Introduction: The relative effectiveness of the
implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) varies with left …

Almost 90% of patients resuscitated from out of hospital cardiac arrest have coronary heart
disease and can be categorized in one of three groups: acute myocardial infarction …

Ventricular late potentials at the end of the surface QRS, detected on the signal-averaged
electrocardiogram (SAECG) have been shown to be markers for spontaneous end/or …

The value of late potentials as a prognostic indicator of the occurrence of ventricular
tachycardia and of sudden cardiac death has been reported in patients with coronary heart …

Large, multicenter studies aimed at defining optimum treatment strategies for patients with
documented ventricular arrhythmias and for patients at high risk of arrhythmia events have …

Cardiovascular diseases remain the major cause of death in the adult North American
population. Most of these deaths are sudden, occurring secondary to ventricular …

The signal-averaged ECG became an important noninvasive method for identifying life-
threatening ventricular arrhythmias. It is most accurate in patients with coronary artery …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the major remaining challenges in clinical cardiology.
Every year, approximately 300000 people die of sudden cardiac-in most cases, arrhythmic …

Objectives We sought to determine the value of electrophysiology (EP) testing in patients
with ventricular fibrillation (VF), ventricular tachycardia (VT) with syncope, or sustained VT in …

The purposes of this study are as follows: 1) to describe the clinical and arrhythmological
characteristics of 30 patients (23 male, 7 female, mean age: 61 years) who suffered from …