Hypertension and Sudden Death

Multiple myocardial bridge in a 59 year-old woman

Introduction: Myocardial bridging is a congenital condition in which a segment of a major epicardial coronary artery has an intra myocardial route. Myocardial bridging is usually confined to a single vessel and is typically the mid segment of the left anterior descending artery. Bridging may be associated with chest pain, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death, or usually asymptomati...

Pulmonary hypertension and sudden death in aortic stenosis.

Sudden death is now an infrequent occurrence in severe aortic stenosis. However, an impressive increase in pulmonary arteriolar resistance has been found in some patients with end-stage aortic stenosis dying suddenly or deteriorating suddenly after catheterisation. Pulmonary hypertension does not seem to cause sudden death, but, in conjunction with decreased cardiac output, a critical reduction...

Verdict in the smooth muscle KATP channel case: guilty of blood pressure control but innocent of sudden death phenotype.

Histomorphological Spectrum of Various Cardiac Changes in Sudden Death: An Autopsy Study

Background and Objectives: In spite of large number of studies conducted so far, sudden cardiac death remains an enigma and relative importance of acute coronary events as a trigger of sudden death is currently unclear. An autopsy study of heart was therefore planned to observe various histomorphological cardiac changes, and to determine the frequency association of acute coronary events and my...

Sudden unexpected death in an undiagnosed sickle disease

Free full text available from www.ijccm.org A b st ra ct We present a rare case of unexpected sudden death in a young woman with undiagnosed sickle disease. The provocative factors for the terminal events were excessive exercise in the form of trekking, urinary infection, and emotional stress .the sudden cardiovascular collapse could have resulted from acute pulmonary hypertension resulting fro...

Hypertension, antihypertensive treatment, and sudden coronary death. The Framingham Study.

During 30 years of follow-up, there were 183 sudden deaths in men and 77 in women ages 35 to 94 years who participated in the Framingham Study. Risk of sudden death was increased threefold in hypertensive persons but only if there was no previously diagnosed coronary heart disease. Men receiving antihypertensive treatment had more than twice the risk of sudden death compared with those who were...