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A Familial Cause of Sudden Death
Background—A prolonged QT interval is associated with a risk for life-threatening events. However, little is known about prognostic implications of the reverse—a short QT interval. Several members of 2 different families were referred for syncope, palpitations, and resuscitated cardiac arrest in the presence of a positive family history for sudden cardiac death. Autopsy did not reveal any struc...
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To the Editor: We appreciated the outstanding review by Drs Zipes and Wellens on sudden cardiac death.1 However, the authors did not mention myocarditis as a cause of sudden death. In our experience at the Forensic Institute of Paris, myocarditis accounts for '5% of sudden, out-of-hospital cardiac deaths.2 Two patterns are common. Acute myocarditis, the first type, occurs most frequently in chi...
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Sudden death and arterial embolism are unpredictable hazards of quinidine therapy for atrial fibrillation that act as deterrents to its most effective use. In this paper an attempt is made to determine the incidence of these accidents as reported in the literature. The mechanism of sudden death is also examined. The difficulty of determining the role of quinidine in producing these accidents in...
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Qt stature and physique, and there was a large r haemorrhage into the right suprarenal &<'ana. d. suprarenal arteries were tortuous and slightly J" of There was similar tortuosity and slight thickenii (he cerebral arteries and of the coronary arteries. g great vessels and the other peripheral arteries normal. The left ventricle was hypertrophied, ,)U jjty myocardium was healthy, and no other ab...
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Sudden cardiac deaths due to giant cell myocarditis (GCM) are uncommon. Giant cell myocarditis is an inflammatory myocardial disease. It is characterized by inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium), a condition referred to as myocarditis. Inflammation is caused by widespread infiltration of giant cells associated with other inflammatory cells and cardiac muscles cell destruction. Giant cel...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1845
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm184507300322604