Patients with Chagas disease can develop a wide spectrum of ventricular tachyarrhythmias that are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality and are the leading cause of sudden death in these ...

Although premature ventricular beats (PVBs) in young people and athletes are usually benign, they may rarely mark underlying heart disease and risk of sudden cardiac death during sport. This review ...

The results uncover new risk factors for death and sustained ventricular tachycardia, including right ventricular hypertrophy, left and/or right ventricular dysfunction and history of atrial ...

Objective The natural history of frequent premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) in association with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is uncertain. The optimal management of this ...

Cocaine abuse is now a serious concern and it will continue to be in the years to come. In the USA alone it is estimated there are 1.6 million current cocaine users, with 1.1 million classified as ...

All routes of cocaine use were associated with abnormal electrocardiographic findings, including potentially fatal rhythm disturbances. As such, all patients using cocaine merit equal medical ...

Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semiautomatically in clinical routine and is, thus, prone ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo has decided to resume the papal tradition of taking vacations at Castel Gandolfo on the shore of Lake Albano 16 miles southeast of the Vatican. I for one am delighted. I mean, I ...

Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is a type of cardiac arrhythmia. This chaotic cardiac electrical activity results in heart quivering instead of normal pumping. To date, early cardiopulmonary ...

The authors found greater amounts of both intermediate LGE and high LGE in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with ventricular arrhythmias (nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular ...

A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.