Symptomatic patients with sustained ventricular tachycardias and/or syncope related to ventricular arrhythmias should undergo ICD implantation. The implantation of an ICD in asymptomatic patients should be limited to those who have several risk factors for sudden cardiac death. It is questionable whether ...
Surgical Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in 2007: What is New? Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has a variable clinical presentation and penetrance. Many patients will have a benign course, but others will become symptomatic and develop left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Echocardiograph...
Engagement is symptomatic of an employee’s motivation, and is not based solely on their financial compensation. An engaged employee is motivated by and committed to the company’s mission. These employees feel valued within the company and see value in the work they do — they understand the ...
The development of safe and effective percutaneous techniques for the cure of symptomatic Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome quickly led to near-elimination of the use of cardiac surgery and antiarrhythmic drugs to treat this proarrhythmic......
Sotalol is a medication used to treat certain heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), life-threatening rapid heart rate in the ventricles (ventricular tachycardia), and to maintain normal sinus rhythm in patients with symptomatic atrial fibrillation. Common side effects of sotalol include shortness of br...
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is caused by the two upper chambers of the heart beating irregularly. Atrial fibrillation(AFib) occurs when the two smaller, upper chambers of theheart(the atria) beat irregularly instead of rhythmically. This abnormal condition can allowblood clotsto form inside the hear...
This could elucidate their tendency to develop symptomatic HF despite having what is conventionally considered as preserved LVEF. Current guidelines recommend the initial measurement of NPs levels either to establish a HF diagnosis or to rule it out in symptomatic patients. Additionally, NP measurement ...
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) can lead to impaired quality of life due to heart failure symptoms, effort-related breathlessness, and decreased exercise tolerance. Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) is a commonly performed procedure designed to alleviate these symptoms when they are due to left ...
Finally, postoperative AF occurred following surgical septal myectomy in approximately 30(percent) of patients in one series [13].AF often occurs in patients who are already symptomatic, but may occasionally be the initial presenting symptom leading to the diagnosis of HCM [4]. At the clinical ...