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Author(s):
Angela Hall
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Andrew RJ Mitchell
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3 years ago
AF is the most common clinical arrhythmia, affecting at least 1–2% of the population.1,2 Its prevalence increases with age, with 5% of people aged over 65 years developing AF, climbing to 8% in those aged over 75 years.3 AF is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and has significant public health implications.4 Patients presenting with new onset AF to emergency departments can be…
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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):
Giulio Conte
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Ulrich Schotten
,
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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