In the past 25 years, major advances were achieved in the nosography of cardiomyopathies,
influencing the definition and taxonomy of this important chapter of cardiovascular disease …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) from cardiac arrest is a major international public health
problem accounting for an estimated 15%–20% of all deaths. Although resuscitation rates …

Pacemaker treatment for bradyarrhythmia was first approved for national health insurance
coverage in Japan in 1974, and its use rapidly became widespread thereafter …

Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) encompasses a group of heritable conditions that are
associated with cardiac repolarization dysfunction. Since its initial description in 1957, our …

SCN5A gene encodes the pore-forming ion-conducting α-subunit of the cardiac sodium
channel (Nav1. 5), which is responsible for the initiation and propagation of action potentials …

The online-only Data Supplement is available with this article at http://circ. ahajournals.
org/lookup/suppl/doi: 10.1161/CIR. 0b013e318276ce9b/-/DC1. The online-only …

however, this characteristic twisting morphology may not be evident in all ECG leads.
Second, episodes of drug-induced TdP usually start with a short-long-short pattern of RR …

This revision of the “ACC/AHA/NASPE Guidelines for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers
and Antiarrhythmia Devices” updates the previous versions published in 1984, 1991, 1998 …

Background—Identifying hospitalized patients at risk for QT interval prolongation could lead
to interventions to reduce the risk of torsades de pointes. Our objective was to develop and …

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