The challenge of preventing arrhythmic sudden death is one of the major issues of today's
treatment of heart failure. To pursue this aim, an accurate selection of candidates for sudden …

First, some background. Despite dramatic advances in preventing and treating
cardiovascular disease, sudden arrhythmic cardiac death remains a major public health …

Riassunto Presupposti dello studio. La Cardiomiopatia Aritmogena (CA) è una patologia
geneticamente determinata del miocardio, caratterizzata da necrosi dei cardiomiociti e …

The term" sudden death" indicates a natural and rapid death, an unexpected event in
patients with high mortality rates such as those with heart failure. Sudden death in patients …

In patients with heart failure, sudden death is very common, particularly in subjects in NYHA
functional class II and III (respectively 50-80% and 30-50% of all deaths). The mechanisms …

Atrial fibrillation, the most frequent arrhythmia, has a growing incidence with increasing age
and the most important complication of the disease is thromboembolic events that may be …

Opinion statement Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a very prevalent cause of death in the
United States. The majority of individuals who experience SCD do not survive the episode …

More than 800,000 North Americans are admitted to the hospital each year with an acute
myocardial infarction (MI)(1, 2). Most of these patients survive until hospital discharge, but a …

Prognosis of patients after myocardial infarction (MI) has continuously improved over the
past 2 decades. From an epidemiologic point of view, however, the absolute number of …