August 4, 2004 — In an era when the number of candidates for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy continues to grow, identifying specific patients at risk for arrhythmic death -- the ...

This is a challenging ECG in regards to determining if the wide QRS complex rhythm is from ventricular tachycardia or "SVT with aberrancy" such as AV nodal reentry tachycardia causing a rate-dependent ...

Older male athletes with a long history of endurance training appear to be at a higher risk of developing myocardial fibrosis, and this scarring is associated with a heightened risk of ventricular ...

Background A 68-year-old man diagnosed with primary plasma-cell leukemia was given thalidomide maintenance treatment for his disease. He had previously failed induction therapy with cyclophosphamide, ...

You go back to sleep and are soon called again for another abnormal rhythm seen on the same patient which is intermittently occurring. The patient is still asymptomatic and vital signs are still ...

May 16, 2007 (Denver, CO) - Noninvasive markers of autonomic dysfunction, especially when combined with ECG criteria, are at least as predictive of sudden-death risk as positive electrophysiologic (EP ...