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Predictive Effect of Atypical Right Bundle‐Branch Block on In‐Hospital Sudden Cardiac Death and Cardiac Rupture and Long‐Term Prognosis in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. Patients were categorized into 4 groups: ARBBB (n=348), typical right BBB (n=374), left BBB (n=366), and nonBBB (n=12 798).

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VF arrest at home, no memory of chest pain. Angiography non-diagnostic. Does this patient need an ICD? You need all the ECGs to know for sure.

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JUNE 23, 2024

This is a critically important determination because of the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Guidelines for Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death.

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News from EHRA 2024: International Experts Agree on Standards for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

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APRIL 9, 2024

Pioneering techniques have emerged since the previous consensus in 2017, 3 requiring new advice on who should receive this procedure and how to perform it in the safest and most effective manner,” Tzeis added. 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The patient did not have a positive family history of epilepsy, sudden cardiac death (SCD) or recurrent syncope. The QT interval can be normal in patients with LQTS, and sometimes only manifests after a trigger such as hypokalemia or certain drugs. Learning Points: LQTS can have normal QTc. mEq/L for K+ and 1.76

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JULY 22, 2023

This discussion comes from this previous post: Hyperthermia and ST Elevation Discussion Brugada Type 1 ECG changes are associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the occurrence of ventricular dysrhythmias. See more cases of Brugada due to fever here. per year. Heart Rhythm, 15(9): 1394-1401. [7]

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Brugada Syndrome: Diagnosis and Risk Stratification

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Brugada syndrome is thought to account for about one fourth of sudden cardiac deaths in individuals with structurally normal heart. 2017 Mar;110(3):188-195. Even though mutations in other channels have been described in Brugada syndrome, only those in SCN5A gene are considered to be definitely disease causing.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

The limb lead abnormalities appear to be part of the Brugada pattern, as described in this article: Inferior and Lateral Electrocardiographic RepolarizationAbnormalities in Brugada Syndrome Discussion Brugada Type 1 ECG changes are associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the occurrence of ventricular dysrhythmias.

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

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JANUARY 23, 2024

12,16 In 2017, CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study) provided proof-of-principle that inflammation inhibition in the absence of lipid lowering can significantly reduce cardiovascular event rates and helped to define the interleukin-1 (IL-1) to IL-6 to CRP pathway as a central target in CV disease.16

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Pleomorphic ventricular tachycardia and risk for sudden cardiac death. Wolters-Kluwer: Philadelphia, PA. [2] 2] Viskin, S., Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: Terminology, mechanism, diagnosis, and emergency therapy. Circulation, 144; 823-839. [3] 3] Murphy, M. American College of Cardiology: Expert Analysis. [4] 8] Liu, E.,

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Discovering discrepancies in a major published trial from the pharma-academic complex would be a boost to those seeking to force trial data to be public, and that is exactly what a group of investigators attempted to do with a major cholesterol lowering trial published in 2017. But first, some background. Cholesterol lowering is big business.

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QT Correction Formulas Compared to The Rule of Thumb ("Half the RR")

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Heart 2002;87:220228 This 2017 article by Vandenberk B et al. We are not using any human or patient data; we are only comparing the rule-of-thumb to various formulas, which may or may not be correspondingly validated by health data (the risk of sudden cardiac death, for instance). --Malik M et al.

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A young F is hyperthermic, delirious, and dry: Fever-induced Brugada? Diphenhydramine toxicity? Tricyclic?

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Further history later: This patient personally has no further high risk features (syncope / presyncope), but her mother had sudden cardiac arrest in sleep. This is based on the Sieira et al, 2017, risk calculator , which gives a borderline risk score (2). years and 71.6% (67 of 88) were men. y (3 of 88, 43.6 ± 37.4 months).

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Predictive Effect of Atypical Right Bundle‐Branch Block on In‐Hospital Sudden Cardiac Death and Cardiac Rupture and Long‐Term Prognosis in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

VF arrest at home, no memory of chest pain. Angiography non-diagnostic. Does this patient need an ICD? You need all the ECGs to know for sure.

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

QT Correction Formulas Compared to The Rule of Thumb ("Half the RR")

A young F is hyperthermic, delirious, and dry: Fever-induced Brugada? Diphenhydramine toxicity? Tricyclic?

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