2017 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: a report of the American College …

SM Al-Khatib, WG Stevenson, MJ Ackerman… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
The recommendations listed in this clinical practice guideline are, whenever possible,
evidence-based. An initial extensive evidence review, which included literature derived from …

[HTML][HTML] 2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest …

MK Stiles, AAM Wilde, DJ Abrams, MJ Ackerman… - Heart rhythm, 2021 - Elsevier
This international multidisciplinary document intends to provide clinicians with evidence-
based practical patient-centered recommendations for evaluating patients and decedents …

Use, misuse, and pitfalls of the drug challenge test in the diagnosis of the Brugada syndrome

AAM Wilde, AS Amin, H Morita… - European Heart …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The diagnosis of Brugada syndrome (BrS) requires the presence of a coved (Type 1) ST
segment elevation in the right precordial leads of the electrocardiogram (ECG). The dynamic …

Characteristics and clinical assessment of unexplained sudden cardiac arrest in the real-world setting: focus on idiopathic ventricular fibrillation

V Waldmann, W Bougouin, N Karam… - European Heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims Recent studies have shown that in more than half of apparently unexplained sudden
cardiac arrests (SCA), a specific aetiology can be unmasked by a careful evaluation. The …

[HTML][HTML] A clinical perspective on sudden cardiac death

DG Katritsis, BJ Gersh, AJ Camm - Arrhythmia & electrophysiology …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This article presents the epidemiology, aetiology and pathophysiology of sudden cardiac
death. The modern management of survivors as well as of family members of victims is …

Outcome of apparently unexplained cardiac arrest: results from investigation and follow-up of the prospective cardiac arrest survivors with preserved ejection fraction …

ARM Herman, C Cheung, B Gerull… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—The Cardiac Arrest Survivors with Preserved Ejection Fraction Registry
(CASPER) enrolls patients with apparently unexplained cardiac arrest and no evident …

[HTML][HTML] Sudden cardiac death

AG Yow, V Rajasurya, I Ahmed, S Sharma - StatPearls [Internet], 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives: Identify important risk factors that can lead to sudden cardiac death. Apply
personalized treatment plans based on identified risk factors, integrating the latest …

Cardiac abnormalities in first-degree relatives of unexplained cardiac arrest victims: a report from the cardiac arrest survivors with preserved ejection fraction registry

C Steinberg, GJ Padfield, J Champagne… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Unexplained cardiac arrest (UCA) may be explained by inherited arrhythmia
syndromes. The Cardiac Arrest Survivors With Preserved Ejection Fraction Registry …

Yield and pitfalls of ajmaline testing in the evaluation of unexplained cardiac arrest and sudden unexplained death: single-center experience with 482 families

R Tadros, EA Nannenberg, KV Lieve… - JACC: Clinical …, 2017 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study evaluated the yield of ajmaline testing and assessed the occurrence
of confounding responses in a large cohort of families with unexplained cardiac arrest (UCA) …

Comparison of ajmaline and procainamide provocation tests in the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome

CC Cheung, G Mellor, MW Deyell, B Ensam… - JACC: Clinical …, 2019 - jacc.org
Objectives: The authors studied the response rates and relative sensitivity of the most
common agents used in the sodium-channel blocker (SCB) challenge. Background: A type 1 …