Sudden Death Predictors

Sudden death predictors: an inflammatory association.

Sudden cardiac death (SCD), which is defined as an unexpected, usually arrhythmic death occurring in asymptomatic individuals shortly after the onset of symptoms, is responsible for more than half of the total cardiac mortality in developed countries throughout the world.1 It frequently appears as the first and only manifestation of previously undetected coronary heart disease.2 At least half t...

Echocardiographic Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death

On Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy*

The clinical diagnostic hallmark of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is unexplained cardiac hypertrophy, commonly found on an echocardiogram and in unfortunate occasions, in an autopsy. The latter is most tragic as HCM, a relatively common disease (1) often presenting with sudden cardiac death (SCD) in apparently healthy young individuals (2,3). Indeed, HCM is considered the most common cause ...

Predictors of sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) die suddenly. Proposed risk factors for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in HC are youth, a family history of SCD, syncope, and ventricular tachycardia. Hemodynamic variables have not convincingly proved to be risk factors for SCD. Therefore, this study was designed to examine predictors of SCD in a large number of patients with HC during long-term follo...

Death and Sudden Death

great value to the student of legal medicine. It is in fact such a book as Coull Mackenzie, if his life had been spared, might have written after long service as Police Surgeon, Calcutta. The volume deals with parts of the subject of forensic medicine which are alwajTs inadequately dealt with in ordinary treatises on legal medicine. The first part deals very fully with the phenomena of death, t...