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Significance of myocardial tenascin-C expression in left ventricular remodelling and long-term outcome in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy [PDF]

, 2015
Aim Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has a variety of causes, and no useful approach to predict left ventricular (LV) remodelling and long-term outcome has yet been established.
Anzai, T, Ikeda, Y, Ishibashi-Ueda, H, Matsuyama, T-A, Nagai, T, Nakatani, T, Nakayama, T, Ogawa, H, Ohta-Ogo, K, Sugano, Y, Takeishi, Y, Yasuda, S, Yokokawa, T   +12 more
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Cost-utility analysis of an implantable cardioverterdefibrillator for the treatment of patients with ischemic or non-ischemic New York Heart Association class II or III heart failure in Colombia

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2019
Introduction: The use of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator reduces the probability of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure. Objective: To determine the cost-utility relationship of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator compared
Sara Atehortúa, Juan Manuel Senior, Paula Castro, Mateo Ceballos, Clara Saldarriaga, Nelson Giraldo, Guillermo Mora   +6 more
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Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death In Patients With Non-ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy [PDF]

, 2005
Non ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM) is a disorder of myocardium. It has varying etiologies. Albeit the varying etiologies of this heart muscle disorder, it presents with symptoms of heart failure, and rarely as sudden cardiac death (SCD ...
Ghosh, Joydeep, Greenberg, Yisachar, Shekha, Karthik, Thekkoott, Deepak   +3 more
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in pediatric and congenital heart disease patients: a single tertiary center experience in Korea [PDF]

, 2013
PurposeThe use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) to prevent sudden cardiac death is increasing in children and adolescents. This study investigated the use of ICDs in children with congenital heart disease.MethodsThis retrospective study ...
Berul, Bo Kyung Jin, Bo Sang Kwon, Bonney, Botsch, Celiker, Choi, Chung Il Noh, Cross, Eicken, Eun Jung Bae, Eun Young Choi, Fananapazir, Gi Beom Kim, Heersche, Hobbs, Horner, Hsia, Ji Seok Bang, Jung Yun Choi, Kral, Kriebel, Kwon, Lobodzinski, Panfilov, Shah, Silka, Tester, Von Bergen, Woong Han Kim, Wren   +30 more
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General anaesthesia for insertion of an automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator in a child with Brugada and autism

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2010
A 14-year-old autistic boy presented with acute gastroenteritis and hypotension. The electrocardiogram showed a ventricular fibrillation rhythm - he went into cardiorespiratory arrest and was immediately resuscitated.
Shwetal Goraksha, Sneha Bidaye, Supriya Gajendragadkar, Jitendra Bapat, Manju Butani   +4 more
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Intelligence-based medicine [PDF]

, 2009
Despite seven hundred thousand new medical references last year, the relationship between a given set of medical features and specific pathophysiology, treatment, and criteria of improvement is often weak.
Didier Journois, Pierre Squara
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Living With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: A phenomenological Study

حیات, 2014
Background & Aim: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator is the most effective treatment for cardiac dysrhythmias. Having such life-saving device is the unique experience with important changes in the patient’ life. Understanding of these experiences can
Mohammad Abbasi, Reza Negarandeh, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri   +2 more
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Andersen-Tawil syndrome: report of 3 novel mutations and high risk of symptomatic cardiac involvement. [PDF]

, 2014
IntroductionAndersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS) is a potassium channelopathy affecting cardiac and skeletal muscle. Periodic paralysis is a presenting symptom in some patients, whereas, in others, symptomatic arrhythmias or prolongation of QT in ...
Bieganowska, Katarzyna, Bienias, Piotr, Kaminska, Anna, Kostera-Pruszczyk, Anna, Lee, Hsien-Yang, Miszczak-Knecht, Maria, Ploski, Rafal, Potulska-Chromik, Anna, Pruszczyk, Piotr, Ptáček, Louis J, Quinn, Emily, Szczałuba, Krzysztof   +11 more
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‘Twiddling’ of the pacemaker resulting in lead dislodgement [PDF]

, 2009
Twiddler’s syndrome is a rare condition in which patient manipulation of the pulse generator within its pocket may result in coiling of the lead and lead dislodgement, thereby causing pacemaker malfunction.
Cassar DeMarco, Daniela, Xuereb, Robert G.   +1 more
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Mid-term feasibility and safety of downgrade procedure from defibrillator to pacemaker with cardiac resynchronization therapy

International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature, 2019
Backgrounds: Some patients who undergo implantation of cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) survive long enough, thus requiring CRT-D battery replacement.
Michio Ogano, Yu-ki Iwasaki, Ippei Tsuboi, Hidekazu Kawanaka, Masaharu Tajiri, Hisato Takagi, Jun Tanabe, Wataru Shimizu   +7 more
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