Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a serious public health problem; the annual incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in North America is approximately 166,200. Identifying patients at risk is a difficult proposition. At the present time, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) remains the single most important marker for risk stratification. According to current guidelines, most patients wit...

Kathryn A Glatter*, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, Matti Viitasalo, Qing Wang, and Dipika Tuteja Department of Cardiology,University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA (KAG, NC, DT); Department of Cardiology,Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland (MV); and Center for Cardiovascular Genetics and Department of Molecular Cardiology Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, ...

INTRODUCTION After initial treatment, differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients are stratified as low and high risk based on clinical/pathological features. Recently, a risk stratification based on additional clinical data accumulated during follow-up has been proposed. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the predictive value of delayed risk stratification (DRS) obtained at the time of the first diagnos...

Silvia G. Priori, MD, PHD,*†‡ Maurizio Gasparini, MD,§ Carlo Napolitano, MD, PHD,*‡ Paolo Della Bella, MD, Andrea Ghidini Ottonelli, MD,¶ Biagio Sassone, MD,# Umberto Giordano, MD,** Carlo Pappone, MD,†† Giosuè Mascioli, MD,‡‡ Guido Rossetti, MD,§§ Roberto De Nardis MD, Mario Colombo, MS¶¶ Pavia, Rozzano, Milano, Lido di Camaiore, Bentivoglio, Palermo, Ravenna, Bergamo, Cuneo, and Vicenza, Ital...

syndromes aims to identify those patients at greatest risk of recurrent ischaemic events who might benefit prognostically from further investigation and treatment. Unfortunately, however, none of the clinical or investigative markers currently available has suYcient diagnostic power to identify all high risk patients while excluding those at negligible risk. Moreover, for patients judged to be ...

Arrhythmic sudden cardiac death (SCD) may be caused by ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation or pulseless electric activity/asystole. Effective risk stratification to identify patients at risk of arrhythmic SCD is essential for targeting our healthcare and research resources to tackle this important public health issue. Although our understanding of SCD because of pulseless electric activity/asy...

Risk models are widely used to predict outcomes after cardiac surgery. Not only is risk modelling applied in the assessment of the relative impact of specific risk factors on surgical outcomes, but also in patient counselling, the selection of treatment options, comparison of postoperative results, and quality-improvement programmes. At least 19 risk-stratification models exist for open-heart s...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Surgery is considered the best treatment option for patients with early stage lung cancer. Nevertheless, lung resection may cause a variable functional impairment that could influence the whole cardio-respiratory system with potential life-threatening complications. The aim of the present study is to review the most relevant evidences about the evaluation of surgical risk befo...