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Author(s):
Agnieszka Smoczynska
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Henriëtte DM Beekman
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Marc A Vos
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3 years ago
The plasticity of the heart enables it to adapt to certain pathological insults and to maintain the cardiac output necessary to satisfy the metabolic requirements of the body.1 Although beneficial at first, this process of ventricular remodelling can have detrimental effects on cardiac function and contribute to arrhythmogenesis.2 Sudden cardiac death due to ventricular tachyarrhythmias accounts…
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Author(s):
Pier D Lambiase
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Joseph De Bono
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Martin Lowe
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et al
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3 years ago
Heart rhythm consultants, primary care physicians, specialist registrars, nurses and physiologists may be requested to review ECGs or advise on cases where antipsychotic-induced QT prolongation is suspected or evident. The British Heart Rhythm Society has issued the Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Patients Developing QT Prolongation on Antipsychotic Medication to support them…
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Author(s):
Frédéric Schnell
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Nathalie Behar
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François Carré
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3 years ago
Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited cardiac ion channelopathy characterised by a variable degree of QT interval prolongation on ECG and an increased susceptibility to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias (torsades de pointes and ventricular fibrillation) in the absence of morphological cardiac disease.
LQTS is estimated to affect one in 2,000 individuals.1 It is usually…
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Author(s):
Serge Sicouri
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Charles Antzelevitch
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3 years ago
The link between sudden unexplained death in individuals with mental health problems who are administered antipsychotic drugs has been recognised for over a century.1 A clear relationship has emerged over the past 25 years between antipsychotic drugs, prolongation of the QT interval of the ECG, atypical polymorphic tachycardia known as torsade de pointes (TdP) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). A…
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Author(s):
Vijayabharathy Kanthasamy
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Richard Schilling
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3 years ago
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the novel betacoronavirus officially named by the WHO as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has spread rapidly globally since the first case reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now affected more than 12million people worldwide, with varying fatality rates across different countries.1 The clinical…
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Author(s):
Manyoo A Agarwal
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Aadhavi Sridharan
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Rhea C Pimentel
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et al
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10 months ago
Author(s):
Giulio Conte
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Ulrich Schotten
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Angelo Auricchio
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3 years ago
The Risk of Atrial Arrhythmias in Inherited Primary Arrhythmia Syndromes
The inherited primary arrhythmia syndromes (IPAS) are a heterogeneous group of diseases caused by mutations in genes encoding for cardiac ion channels. People affected by one of these inherited diseases have no overt structural cardiac abnormalities but are at higher risk of sudden cardiac death due to the occurrence of…
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Unmasking Adenosine
Author(s):
Gareth DK Matthews
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Andrew Grace
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Melani Sotiriadou
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Antonios P Antoniadis
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Nikolaos Fragakis
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et al
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2 years ago
Author(s):
Antonio Zaza
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Carlotta Ronchi
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Gabriella Malfatto
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3 years ago
The incidence of ventricular arrhythmias is often related, within an individual, to the rate of their underlying sinus rhythm (heart rate). The direction of this relationship is generally considered to entail some prognostic significance: whereas ectopic activity suppressed by tachycardia is assumed to be benign, an arrhythmia enhanced by tachycardia is regarded with more concern. Is this…
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