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Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia Diagnosed in a Patient with Long-term Undiagnosed Syncope [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) is an inherited cardiomyopathy which represents progressive replacement of right ventricular myocardium with fibrofatty tissue. In the present case, a 42-year-old male presented to the hospital as he fell
Avi Shah, Ramesh Patel, Sandeep Aggarwal
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Physician antibiotic hydration preferences for biologic antibacterial envelopes during cardiac implantable device procedures

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
BackgroundCardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection is a potentially serious complication of CIED procedures. Infection risk mitigation includes using guideline-recommended pre-operative intravenous antibacterial prophylaxis (IV ABX).
Thomas F. Deering, John N. Catanzaro, David A. Woodard   +2 more
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Assessing delivered pulse-energies by a nonlinear model

Frontiers in Physics, 2023
Short-duration and high-amplitude electric pulses have recently been used for two different biological tasks: stimulating physiological actions such as heart rate or defibrillation and invoking cell annihilation, as in cancer treatment or atrial ...
Avinoam Rabinovitch, Doron Braunstein, Ira Aviram, Ella Smolik, Yaacov Biton, Revital Rabinovitch, Reuven Thieberger   +6 more
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Towards Low Energy Atrial Defibrillation

Sensors, 2015
A wireless powered implantable atrial defibrillator consisting of a battery driven hand-held radio frequency (RF) power transmitter (ex vivo) and a passive (battery free) implantable power receiver (in vivo) that enables measurement of the intracardiac ...
Philip Walsh, Vivek Kodoth, David McEneaney, Paola Rodrigues, Jose Velasquez, Niall Waterman, Omar Escalona   +6 more
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Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices in Different Anatomical Types of Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava: Case Series and Brief Review of the Literature

Diagnostics, 2022
Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is the most common congenital malformation of the thoracic venous system, being present in 0.3% to 0.5% of the general population. In the majority of the cases, PLSVC is asymptomatic, but in certain patients, it
Cosmin Gabriel Adavidoaei, Ana Maria Haba, Irina Iuliana Costache, Viviana Onofrei, Cristian Mihai Stefan Haba, Ciprian Rezus, Andreea-Maria Ursaru, Nicolae Dan Tesloianu   +7 more
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Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy with apical septal ventricular tachycardia

Heart India, 2021
We present a rare case of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) in a 23-year-old female with recurrent syncope with electrocardiography documentation of apical septal ventricular tachycardia (VT).
Debasish Das, Debasis Acharya, Tutan Das, Jogendra Singh, Sashikant Singh, Subhas Pramanik   +5 more
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Clinical outcomes of cardiac resynchronization therapy with and without a defibrillator in elderly patients with heart failure

Journal of Arrhythmia, 2019
Background Evidence regarding the incremental benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with a defibrillator (CRT‐D) versus without (CRT‐P) in elderly patients with heart failure is limited.
Simon Christie, Brett Hiebert, Colette M. Seifer, Clarence Khoo   +3 more
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Long‐Term Follow‐Up of Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation in a Pediatric Population: Clinical Characteristics, Management, and Complications

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background The natural history and long‐term outcome in pediatric patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) are poorly characterized. We sought to define the clinical characteristics and long‐term outcomes of a pediatric cohort with an ...
Antonio Frontera, Konstantinos Vlachos, Takeshi Kitamura, Saagar Mahida, Xavier Pillois, Gerard Fahy, Christelle Marquie, Riccardo Cappato, Graham Stuart, Pascal Defaye, Juan Pablo Kaski, Joris Ector, Alice Maltret, Patrice Scanu, Jean‐Luc Pasquie, Isabelle Deisenhofer, Ivan Blankoff, Daniel Scherr, Martin Manninger, Yoshifusa Aizawa, Linda Koutbi, Arnaud Denis, Thomas Pambrun, Philippe Ritter, Frederic Sacher, Meleze Hocini, Philippe Maury, Pierre Jaïs, Pierre Bordachar, Michel Haïssaguerre, Nicolas Derval   +30 more
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillator as a treatment for massive left ventricular fibroma-induced ventricular arrhythmia in a child [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2021
Pediatric cardiac tumors are rare. Among these, cardiac fibroma is the second most common. Its clinical manifestations depend on size and location of the tumor and include arrhythmia or obstruction to blood flow.
In Su Choi, Hyung Ki Jeong, Hyung Wook Park, Yi-Seul Kim   +3 more
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Ranolazine: safe and effective in a patient with hypertensive cardiomyopathy and multiple episodes of electrical storm

Clinical Case Reports, 2017
Key Clinical Message Among implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator (ICD) recipients, there are patients with recurrent episodes of electrical storm (ES), retractable to the optimal antiarrhythmic drug therapy or invasive ablation procedures.
Panagiotis Margos, Nikolaos Margos, Nadiya Mokadem, Ilias Patsiotis, Athanasios Kranidis   +4 more
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