One of the most important challenges for scientific societies responsible for the development
of guidelines, is to provide regular update of recommendations when new data become …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) causes more than 300 000 deaths per annum in Europe, with
the same number occurring in the United States, according to current estimations. 1 2 This …

Importance The majority of sudden and/or arrhythmic deaths (SAD) in patients with coronary
heart disease occur in those without severe systolic dysfunction, for whom strategies for …

An association between the anatomic pathology and pathophysiology of coronary
atherosclerosis and sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been long recognized. At the end of …

The present European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines is a European update to the
2006 European/American guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular …

More than 40 years after the first implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation,
sudden cardiac death (SCD) still accounts for more than five million deaths worldwide every …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a daunting problem. It is a major public health issue
for several reasons: from its prevalence (20% of total mortality in the industrialized world) to …

Objectives To summarise and synthesise the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of
drug interventions to prevent sudden cardiac death (SCD) and all-cause mortality in patients …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) may occur in as many as 40% of all patients who suffer from
heart failure. This review describes the scope of the problem, risk factors for SCD, the effect …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is generally defined as unexpected death as the result of
cardiovascular causes in a person with or without preexisting heart disease, within 1 hour of …