In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at what adult cardiologists should know about congenital heart disease patients. He then discusses sudden cardiac arrest and death in competitive and recreational ...
Although long-term oral amiodarone therapy does not increase mortality and may improve mortality in some patients, noncardiac toxicity is a major problem. In randomized trials, 41% of patients ...
the device shocks the heart back into rhythm when malignant heart arrhythmias occur. The procedure was led by Sunita Ferns, MD, director of pediatric and adult congenital electrophysiology ...
When 78-year-old Nancy Adams was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, a common electrical disorder involving the heart, we decided on medication to control her heart rhythm and also a blood thinner ...
And a heart attack can be quickly followed by a stroke. An acute stroke can make it difficult to perceive or communicate the symptoms of a heart attack, In the days after a stroke, you would be ...
Abstract: ECG-imaging has been receiving increasing clinical and commercialization interest as a non-invasive technology for computing cardiac electrical activity and facilitating clinical management ...
The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the gold standard to evaluate cardiac conduction and repolarization times. Smartwatches and smart devices offer possibilities for ambulatory ECG recording and ...
With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 ... Therapies targeting this ...