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Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Berndt Lüderitz
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Short QT Syndrome
Short QT syndrome is a genetically transmitted disease caused by mutations in different genes that is associated with atrial arrhythmias but more importantly with a severely increased risk of dying suddenly fr...
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Long-term follow-up of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in Short QT syndrome
Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is associated with sudden cardiac death and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation is recommended in this rare disease. However, only a few SQTS families have been r...
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Short QT Syndrome
In 2000, Gussak et al. described an idiopathic short QT interval associated with atrial fibrillation in a family and sudden death in an unrelated individual. Three years later, in 2003, Gaita et al. reported t...
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Open AccessExtent of late gadolinium enhancement detected by cardiovascular magnetic resonance correlates with the inducibility of ventricular tachyarrhythmia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Myocardial fibrosis is frequently identified in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The aim of this study was to investigate the role of myocardial fibrosis detected by late gadolinium-enhancement...
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Short QT Syndrome
In 2000, for the first time a short QT interval was linked to a sporadic case of sudden cardiac death and an unrelated family with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.1,2 Three years later, a short QT interval associa...
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Prevention of inappropriate ICD shocks in patients with Brugada syndrome
In Brugada syndrome implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy is associated with a high rate of inappropriate therapies, mainly due to supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVT) (2.7–14.1%/year). Aim o...
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Risk Stratification in Electrical Cardiomyopathies
Electrical cardiomyopathies contain the long QT syndrome (LQTS), the short QT syndrome (SQTS), the Brugada syndrome, and the catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Patients diagnosed wit...
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Open AccessCMR findings in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation
We sought to evaluate the relation between atrial fibrillation (AF) and the extent of myocardial scarring together with left ventricular (LV) and atrial parameters assessed by late gadolinium-enhancement (LGE)...
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Short QT Syndrome in a Pediatric Patient
Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a recently described genetic syndrome characterized by abnormally brisk ventricular repolarization. Similar to long QT syndrome, SQTS might result in ventricular arrhythmias, syncop...
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Channelopathies: Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome, short QT syndrome, and CPVT
In approximately 10–20% of all sudden deaths, no structural cardiac abnormalities can be identified. Important potential causes of sudden cardiac deaths in the absence of heart disease are primary electrical d...
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How to measure heart rate?
Heart rate has been shown to predict cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a very reliable and easily accessible manner. The exact definition of the conditions under which heart rate is measured appears t...
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The patient‘s informed consent for pacemakers and ICD implantation: how to write and how to explain it
Die Patienteninformation und Einverständniserklärung zur ICD- oder Schrittmacherimplantation sollte gut verständlich und in der Landessprache des Patienten verfasst sein. Informationen zu etwaigen Fahrerlaubn...
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Klinische Wertigkeit medikamentöser Provokationsmanöver bei Brugada-Syndrom
Patients with right bundle branch block and J-point elevations are at risk of sudden death. In the setting of recurrent syncope, polymorphic ventricular tachycardias or aborted sudden death they are highly su...
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Case Report: Regional Cerebral Hypoperfusion Induced by Ventricular Tachycardia – Short-term Hippocampal Hypoperfusion and its Potential Relationship to Selective Neuronal Damage
Background: Focussing on regional cerebral hypoperfusion during hemodynamically stable, but borderline hypotensive, sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) experimental studies show (1) a reduction of cerebral bl...
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Ein neuartiges Zwei-Kammer-Defibrillationssystem: Dauer, Frequenz und zirkadiane Variation supraventrikulärer Tachyarrhythmierezidive
Die Behandlung von Patienten mit ventrikulären Tachyarrhythmien und gleichzeitigen atrialen Tachyarrhythmien stellt große Anforderungen an die modernen implantierbaren Defibrillatoren. Supraventrikuläre Tachy...
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Predictors of Success in Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrial Flutter
Radiofrequency catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter at the isthmus between the tricuspid annulus and the inferior vena cava is established. However in selected patients, the creation of a continuous lin...
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Clinical Experience with Implantable Atrial and Combined Atrioventricular Defibrillators
The high prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and its clinical complications, the poor efficacy of medical therapy for preventing recurrences, and dissatisfaction with alternative modes of therapy stimulated...
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Inappropriate Implantable Defibrillator Discharge Caused by a Retained Pacemaker Lead Fragment
Introduction: Inappropriate discharge is still a major issue of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy. The diagnostic options of modern devices facilitate classification of the underlying abnormality.
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Prospective Evaluation of the Quality and Long-Term Stability of Atrial Signals in Non-thoracotomy Defibrillation Electrodes: Comparison of Four Different Endocardial Electrograms
Documentation of atrial signals in stored endocardial electrograms of modern implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) is a useful tool to classify the underlying arrhythmia leading to device therapy. Newe...
