In the operating room ventricular standstill is the usual initial mechanism of cardiac arrest, but ventricular fibrillation occasionally occurs, 1 particularly during hypothermia or during ...

Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...

Left ventricular noncompaction is characterized by deep trabeculations in the LV endocardium in association with left ventricular hypertrophy, dilation or hypertrophy/dilation. Noncompaction of the ...

The characteristics described in this table are general. The intra-aortic balloon pump has been excluded since to it does not generate its own volume stroke. *Clinical approval of ECMO is variable ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

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1 Principal investigator Dr. David Zizek of the University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia said: “In everyday clinical practice, ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation is still often regarded ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, Göttingen scientists developed a method to assess and modulate ...

1 This editorial presents the rationale and considerations for a period of detraining in the diagnostic evaluation of athletes with premature ventricular beats (PVBs). Ultrastructural changes related ...

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