2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: Developed by the task force for the …

K Zeppenfeld, J Tfelt-Hansen, M De Riva… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
4004 ESC Guidelines label use of medication should be limited to situations where it is in
the patient's interest to do so, with regard to the quality, safety, and efficacy of care, and only …

Fighting against sudden cardiac death: need for a paradigm shift—Adding near-term prevention and pre-emptive action to long-term prevention

E Marijon, R Garcia, K Narayanan… - European Heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Effect of dapagliflozin on ventricular arrhythmias, resuscitated cardiac arrest, or sudden death in DAPA-HF

JP Curtain, KF Docherty, PS Jhund… - European heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims The aim of this study was to examine the effect of dapagliflozin on the incidence of
ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection …

Predicted benefit of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: the MADIT-ICD benefit score

A Younis, JJ Goldberger, V Kutyifa… - European heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims The benefit of prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is not uniform
due to differences in the risk of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular …

[HTML][HTML] Ventricular arrhythmias in ischemic cardiomyopathy—New avenues for mechanism-guided treatment

M Amoni, E Dries, S Ingelaere, D Vermoortele… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ischemic heart disease is the most common cause of lethal ventricular arrhythmias and
sudden cardiac death (SCD). In patients who are at high risk after myocardial infarction …

Predictors of primary prevention implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator use in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: impact of the predicted risk of sudden cardiac …

B Schrage, LH Lund, L Benson… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Use of implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators (ICD) for primary prevention of sudden
cardiac death (SCD) in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is limited. We …

Benefit of primary and secondary prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator in elderly patients

M Lewenhardt, F Kreimer, A Aweimer… - Clinical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The benefit of implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator (ICD) in elderly patients has
been questioned. In the present study, we aimed to analyse the outcome of patients of …

QRS micro-fragmentation as a mortality predictor

K Hnatkova, I Andršová, T Novotný… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aims Fragmented QRS complex with visible notching on standard 12-lead
electrocardiogram (ECG) is understood to represent depolarization abnormalities and to …

Role of implantable cardioverter defibrillator in heart failure with contemporary medical therapy

J Butler, KM Talha, MK Aktas, W Zareba… - Circulation: Heart …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy is indicated in a subset of patients with heart
failure with reduced ejection as primary prevention for sudden cardiac death. The advent of …

Periodic repolarization dynamics identifies ICD responders in nonischemic cardiomyopathy: a DANISH substudy

R Boas, N Sappler, L von Stülpnagel, M Klemm… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Identification of patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy who may benefit
from prophylactic implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator. We hypothesized that periodic …