Outcome of apparently unexplained cardiac arrest: results from investigation and follow-up of the prospective cardiac arrest survivors with preserved ejection fraction …

ARM Herman, C Cheung, B Gerull… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—The Cardiac Arrest Survivors with Preserved Ejection Fraction Registry
(CASPER) enrolls patients with apparently unexplained cardiac arrest and no evident …

Cardiac abnormalities in first-degree relatives of unexplained cardiac arrest victims: a report from the cardiac arrest survivors with preserved ejection fraction registry

C Steinberg, GJ Padfield, J Champagne… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Unexplained cardiac arrest (UCA) may be explained by inherited arrhythmia
syndromes. The Cardiac Arrest Survivors With Preserved Ejection Fraction Registry …

Genetic testing in the evaluation of unexplained cardiac arrest: from the CASPER (Cardiac Arrest Survivors With Preserved Ejection Fraction Registry)

G Mellor, ZWM Laksman, R Tadros… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Unexplained cardiac arrest may be because of an inherited arrhythmia
syndrome. The role of genetic testing in cardiac arrest survivors without a definite clinical …

Systematic assessment of patients with unexplained cardiac arrest: Cardiac Arrest Survivors with Preserved Ejection Fraction Registry (CASPER)

AD Krahn, JS Healey, V Chauhan, DH Birnie… - Circulation, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Cardiac arrest without evident cardiac disease may be caused by subclinical
genetic conditions. Provocative testing to unmask a phenotype is often necessary to detect …

Sentinel symptoms in patients with unexplained cardiac arrest: from the cardiac arrest survivors with preserved ejection fraction registry (CASPER)

AD Krahn, JS Healey, CS Simpson… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Sentinel Symptoms in Unexplained Cardiac Arrest. Background: Warning symptoms may
provide an opportunity to diagnose genetic disorders leading to preventative therapy. We …

Evolution of clinical diagnosis in patients presenting with unexplained cardiac arrest or syncope due to polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

MV Matassini, AD Krahn, M Gardner, J Champagne… - Heart Rhythm, 2014 - Elsevier
Background A systematic evaluation of patients with unexplained cardiac arrest (UCA)
yields a diagnosis in 50% of the cases. However, evolution of clinical phenotype …

Unexplained cardiac arrest. The need for a prospective registry.

SG Priori, M Borggrefe, AJ Camm, NW Hauer… - European heart …, 1992 - iris.unipv.it
The most widely recognized cause of sudden cardiac deaths ventricular fibrillation in the
setting of ischaemic heart disease. In spite of such a wide variety of identified causes for …

Management of survivors of cardiac arrest: is electrophysiologic testing obsolete in the era of implantable defibrillators?

SG Kim - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1990 - Elsevier
Although the value and limitations of programmed stimula- Table 1. Studies involving< IO
patients with noninducible tion in the management of patients with coronary disease …

Initially unexplained cardiac arrest in children and adolescents: a national experience from the Canadian Pediatric Heart Rhythm Network

T Cunningham, TM Roston, S Franciosi, MC Liu… - Heart Rhythm, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Unexplained cardiac arrest (UCA) is rare in children. Despite investigations, the
etiology in up to one-half of patients remains unknown. Objective The purpose of this study …

Characteristics and clinical assessment of unexplained sudden cardiac arrest in the real-world setting: focus on idiopathic ventricular fibrillation

V Waldmann, W Bougouin, N Karam… - European Heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims Recent studies have shown that in more than half of apparently unexplained sudden
cardiac arrests (SCA), a specific aetiology can be unmasked by a careful evaluation. The …