Technical Considerations of Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm Exclusion by James Barr, Metesh Nalin Acharya, Antonios Kourliouros, Shahzad Gull Raja

“…A saphenous vein graft was anastomosed to the posterior descending artery. Persistent ventricular fibrillation occurred upon chest closure, attributed to ischaemia following ligation of the aneurysmal coronary artery. …”
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Successful Treatment of an Infant with Left Ventricular Noncompaction Presenting with Fatal Ventricular Arrhythmia Treated with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and an Implantable... by Masato Kimura, Kengo Kawano, Hisao Yaoita, Shigeo Kure

“…We herein report the successful treatment of a 4-year-old girl with left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) who presented with incessant ventricular fibrillation at 5 months of age. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) was implanted, and dual chamber (DDD) pacing was initiated at 7 months of age. …”
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Electrical Injury-Induced Complete Atrioventricular Block: Is Permanent Pacemaker Required? by Osman Beton, Tolga Han Efe, Hakki Kaya, Murat Bilgin, Lale Dinc Asarcikli, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

“…Electrical injury can lead to various cardiovascular disorders: acute myocardial necrosis, myocardial ischemia, heart failure, arrhythmias, hemorrhagic pericarditis, acute hypertension with peripheral vasospasm, and anomalous, nonspecific ECG alterations. Ventricular fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia resulting from electrical injury and is the leading cause of death in electrical (especially low voltage alternating current) injury cases. …”
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a Youth with Multiple Arrhythmic Substrates by James Ainsworth, Adrian Ionescu

“…A 28-year-old male had ventricular fibrillation leading to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which was successfully resuscitated. …”
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Brugada Pattern Electrocardiogram Unmasked with Cocaine Ingestion by M. Chadi Alraies, Mohammed A. R. Chamsi-Pasha, Motaz Baibars, Abdul Hamid Alraiyes, Khaldoon Shaheen

“…Cocaine has powerful central nervous system effects1 and acute cocaine overdose has been associated with hyperthermia, agitation, paranoid ideation, status epilepticus, ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, and myocardial infarction (MI). …”
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Pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by a novel TNNI3 variant by Natsuko Inagaki, Tomoya Okano, Masatake Kobayashi, Masatsune Fujii, Yoshinao Yazaki, Yasuyoshi Takei, Hisanori Kosuge, Shinji Suzuki, Takeharu Hayashi, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuhiro Satomi

“…A 14-year-old girl who was diagnosed with nonobstructive HCM presented with cardiopulmonary arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. Genetic testing revealed a novel de novo heterozygous missense variant in TNNI3, NM_000363.5:c.583A>T (p.Ile195Phe), which was determined to be the pathogenic variant. …”
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Mechanisms and Clinical Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias following Blunt Chest Trauma by Daniel H. Wolbrom, Aleef Rahman, Cory M. Tschabrunn

“…This is based on two entirely separate mechanisms and etiologies requiring different treatments. Ventricular fibrillation can occur immediately after chest wall injury (commotio cordis) and requires rapid defibrillation. …”
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Case of Cardiac Arrest Treated with Extra-Corporeal Life Support after MDMA Intoxication by Pierre Voizeux, Romain Lewandowski, Theresa Daily, Omar Ellouze, Olivier Bouchot, Belaïd Bouhemad, Pierre-Grégoire Guinot

“…A 22-year-old man transferred to the emergency room with hyperthermia, tremors, and mydriasis presented a cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. Interventions. We implemented extra-corporeal life support combined with vasoactive drugs. …”
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Sudden Cardiac Death: The Most Feared but Potentially Preventable Presentation of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome by Ana Rita Pereira, Alexandra Briosa, Rita Miranda, Sofia Sequeira Almeida, Luís Brandão, Hélder Pereira

“…A 25-year-old male presented a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation rhythm. Due to rapid initiation of prehospital advanced life support, return of spontaneous circulation was observed. …”
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Fulminant myocarditis caused by immune checkpoint inhibitor: a case report and possible treatment inspiration by Zhijie Liu, Yiming Fan, Jun Guo, Ning Bian, Dongdong Chen

“…We report the case of a 60‐year‐old female with fulminant myocarditis induced by ICIs, which caused her to experience frequent ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation and heart failure. She was successfully treated with current mainstream therapies for immune‐related myocarditis and additional treatment of sacubitril–valsartan and dapagliflozin. …”
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The Use of 99mTc-Methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile (sestaMIBI) Uptake on Scintigraphy (99m-STS) in Amiodarone-Induced Thyrotoxicosis: Case Series and Review of the Literature by Ghada Elshimy, Mahmoud Alsayed, Jerome Targovnik, Gamal Sidarous, Kresimira M. Milas

“…Amiodarone is a class III antiarrhythmic drug, used by cardiologists to treat arrhythmia including atrial fibrillation (A fib) and ventricular fibrillation. However, amiodarone is associated with endocrine dysfunction including both hypo- and hyperthyroidism. …”
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Coronary Subclavian Steal Syndrome Causing Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Patient Undergoing Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting by Jiri Mandak, Miroslav Lojik, Martin Tuna, James Lago Chek

“…The patient was resuscitated at home by emergency medical service because of primary ventricular fibrillation due to an acute myocardial infarction 5 years after surgery. …”
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Dexmedetomidine Reduces Incidences of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Adult Patients: A Meta-Analysis by Qiaonan Zhong, Ashish Kumar, Abhishek Deshmukh, Courtney Bennett

“…Randomized controlled trials were included, examining the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias, ventricular tachycardia, or ventricular fibrillation with dexmedetomidine compared to placebo or an alternative sedative agent. …”
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Fever and Shock in a Child: How 'good' is a Good Blood Test? by Nevin Kollannoor Chinnan, Pragnyadipta Mishra, GD Puri

“…She developed ventricular fibrillation, which was cardioverted. After cardiac arrest, she was intubated and transferred to the intensive care unit. …”
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Biventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy in a Patient Presenting with New Onset Seizure: Case Report by Oghenerukevwe Odiete, Ramanna Nagendra, Mark A. Lawson, Henry Okafor

“…On the second day of her telemetry-monitored hospitalization, she suffered a witnessed ventricular fibrillation arrest requiring emergency direct-current cardioversion and induced hypothermia. …”
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Global Longitudinal Strain May Be the One that Appropriately Identifies Candidates of ICD Implantation by Mohammad Hossein Nikoo, Mohammad Zarrabi, Alireza Moaref, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi

“…Patients who received ICD shocks (appropriate) due to ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF) were categorized in group A. …”
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A Safety Case for the Use of Bipolar ±60V DC for Microgrids by Stephen A. Jay, David Clark, Chris Stone, Renke Han, Daniel J. Rogers, Malcolm McCulloch

“…A comprehensive touch voltage assessment with reference to IEC 60479 confirms that the proposed system voltage does not present risk of ventricular fibrillation based on values of body impedance corresponding to the 5th percentile of the population.…”
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Camrelizumab-Related Lethal Arrhythmias and Myasthenic Crisis in a Patient with Metastatic Thymoma by Bo Zhang, Laxman Gyawali, Zengzhang Liu, Huaan Du, Yuehui Yin

“…On day 5 of hospitalization, she suffered from ventricular fibrillation and died of cardiac arrest. In clinical practice, close follow-up should be conducted after ICI treatment, especially for patients already with or at high risk for autoimmune disorders. …”
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Is hypercalcaemia immediately life-threatening? A prospective study by David Trewick, Mathilde Le Borgne, Julie Regnault, Camille Guimard

“…The primary outcome was the number of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, sinus arrest and second- or third-degree atrioventricular blocks) or neurological complications defined by a Glasgow Coma Scale score <9 during the stay in the ED. …”
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Diagnostic Model of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Used Artificial Intelligence Methods by Yong Li

“…The strongest predictors of in-hospital mortality were age, gender, cardiogenic shock, atrial fibrillation (AF), ventricular fibrillation (VF), third degree atrioventricular block, in-hospital bleeding, underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) during hospitalization, underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) during hospitalization, hypertension history, diabetes history, and myocardial infarction history. …”
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