Primary ventricular fibrillation: a reason to be cautious

Time to be cautious about prescribing sulfonylureas?

Ecologists Need to be Cautious about Economic Metaphors: A Reply.

I thank the authors of the three responses to my article, ‘Have Ecosystem Services Been Oversold?’ [1], for providing a range of opinions that, to varying degrees, take the debate forward. In the most critical of the three letters, Potschin et al. [2] describe my paper as a caricature of the field, but then go on to caricature the paper itself. I did not claim that the ecosystem services (ES) p...

Ventricular fibrillation in hypercalcaemic crisis due to primary hyperparathyroidism.

We report the case of a 64-year-old man who presented with severe hypercalcaemia secondary to primary hyperparathyroidism. Soon after admission he developed ventricular fibrillation with no other cause than this severe hypercalcaemia. Although the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias in hypercalcaemia is widely known, ventricular fibrillation has never been described before.

Electrocardiographic antecedent of primary ventricular fibrillation.

Postoperative ventricular fibrillation and undiagnosed primary amyloidosis.

AMYLOIDOSIS is a disease characterized by deposition of amyloid proteins in various body tissues. The natural history of primary amyloidosis is poorly understood, and the clinical diagnosis is often not made until the disease is far advanced. There is a high prevalence of conduction disturbances associated with this disease, and heart-related problems are a frequent cause of death for patients ...