Sentences with phrase «of ventricular fibrillation»

Patients who experienced SCA related to sexual activity also had a higher rate of ventricular fibrillation / tachycardia than those who did not.

Defibrillation is a medical technique used to counter the onset of ventricular fibrillation, (VF) a common cause of cardiac arrest, and pulseless ventricular tachycardia, which sometimes precedes ventricular fibrillation but can be just as dangerous on its own.

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Nearly all patients had ventricular fibrillation, the kind of cardiac arrest that can be restored with a shock to the heart.

In a test of this theory, researchers have demonstrated that mice harboring a human SCN1A gene mutation that results in Dravet Syndrome (DS), a severe and intractable genetic epilepsy, have electrical disturbances in the heart that culminate in ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.

«Patients who develop TR after MV repair for degenerative diseases are older, have chronic atrial fibrillation, more advanced functional class, and impaired left ventricular function at the time of the initial surgery.

Francis Kim, M.D., of Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues evaluated whether early prehospital cooling (lowering body temperature) improved survival to hospital discharge and neurological outcome in cardiac arrest patients with or without ventricular fibrillation (VF).

Restoring blood flow to the heart following a heart attack can leave patients with ventricular fibrillation, a dangerous heart rhythm which puts people at greater risk of sudden cardiac death.

Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.

We also aim, in the model of cardiomyocyte, decipher implication of mutations identified in cardiomyopathies such as inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathies (HCM), Atrial fibrillation (AF) or Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).

March 17, 2016 Roderick Tung, MD, named director of cardiac electrophysiology program at the University of Chicago Medicine Roderick Tung, MD, an authority on the management of heart rhythm disorders, with a particular focus on advanced therapies for atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias, has been appointed associate professor of medicine and medical director of the cardiac electrophysiology program at the Center for Arrhythmia Care at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Atrial fibrillation affects almost 5 million Americans and sudden cardiac death, in part caused by ventricular arrhythmias, is the leading cause of mortality in industrialized nations.

Cardiac arrest is the loss of mechanical activity of the heart that often begins as ventricular fibrillation.

If the thin wires running to the chambers of the heart detect ventricular fibrillation — an often lethal arrhythmia — the ICD will unleash a burst of electricity to force the heart back into rhythm.

In fact, according to the Heart Rhythm Society 2004, more than 50 % of deaths from cardiovascular disease can be blamed on arrhythmia (ventricular fibrillation).

An average human dose equivalent of 500 mg of tyrosine given intravenously reduces susceptibility to life - threatening ventricular fibrillation in experimental animals.

Cardiac dilation, decreased oxygen supply, and increased oxygen demand secondary to elevated heart rate and ventricular wall stress may predispose to the development of cardiac arrhythmias arising in either the atria (atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia) or in the ventricles (ventricular premature complexes, ventricular tachycardia).

Alternatively, it could cause ventricular fibrillation which essentially refers to disorganized and useless fluttering of the ventricles found in the heart.