Primary Angioplasty for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Presenting as ST-Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction during Endomyocardial Biopsy by Bruno Ramos Nascimento, Thalles Oliveira Gomes, Júlio César Borges, Guilherme Rafael Sant’Anna Athayde, Sílvio Amadeu de Andrade, Maria da Consolação Vieira Moreira

“…During an endomyocardial biopsy more than 2 years after the transplant, the patient arrested in ventricular fibrillation, with ST-elevation in anterior leads after defibrillation. …”
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Characteristics and Clinical Course of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and ST-segment Elevation with and without Interatrial Block by Francisco de Jesús Valladares Carvajal, Verónica Mercedes Carretero Acosta, Raimundo Carmona Puerta, Aymara Marcia Hernández Cardoso, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares

“…Demographic variables were analyzed: age, sex, skin color and between clinics: toxic habits; (smoker, ex-smoker); medical history (myocardial infarction, angina, peripheral arterial disease, arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease; infarct location (anterior, inferior, left bundle branch block); complications: heart failure, atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation, atrioventricular conduction disorders, mechanical complication, post infarction angina, arterial embolism) and discharge status (alive or deceased). …”
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Early amiodarone or lidocaine administration during in-hospital cardiac arrest caused by shockable rhythms by Rafael C. Paganoni, Jack C. Pluenneke, Adham M. Mohamed, Charles H. Hayes, III, Carole E. Freiberger-O’Keefe, Paul S. Chan

“…We aimed to evaluate the association between time of intravenous amiodarone or lidocaine administration and return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in patients with IHCA caused by ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT). …”
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Analysis of a Family with Brugada Syndrome and Sudden Cardiac Death Caused by a Novel Mutation of SCN5A by Yao-Bin Zhu, Jian-Hui Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Ji, Ya-Nan Hu, Han-Lu Wang, Dan-Dan Ruan, Xiao-Rong Meng, Xin-Fu Lin, Jie-Wei Luo, Wei Chen

“…The clinical features include ventricular fibrillation, syncope, and sudden cardiac death. …”
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J Point and ST Elevation Resembling Brugada: A Marker of Mortality in Methanol Toxicity by Mohammad Hossein Nikoo, Alireza Estedal, Kiana Khatami, Maryam Pakfetrat, Alireza Arjangzadeh, Shahrokh Sadeghi Boogar, Sina Danesh, Seyed Taghi Heydari

“…This clinical entity, among asymptomatic individuals with no family history of sudden cardiac death, would be reported in some severely ill patients before ventricular fibrillation. This study investigated the relationship between the electrocardiograms with demographic and laboratory data and also analyzed their association with mortality rate among patients with methanol poisoning. …”
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Automated external defibrillator: Rhythm analysis and defibrillation on paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Emma Menant, Delphine Lavignasse, Sarah Ménétré, Jean-Philippe Didon, Xavier Jouven

“…Shock efficacy observed for all patients who received a shock was 83.1% and first shock efficacy for patients in initial ventricular fibrillation was 96%. Patients who received a shock had a pre-hospital ROSC rate of 74.3%, a survival rate at hospital admission of 71.4% and 34.3% at hospital discharge. …”
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Emergency surgical coronary revascularization in patients with acute myocardial infarction by B.М. Todurov, G.I. Kovtun, S.O. Sheludko, L.G. Bitsadze, L.G. Bitsadze, O.V. Revenko, A.O. Shpachuk, O.V. Pantazi, О.М. Postupalsky

“…CABG surgery technique in patients with AMI is safe when using artificial ventricular fibrillation with intermittent aortic clamping and moderate hypothermia.…”
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Impact of Application of Multifunction Electrode (MFE) Pads on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality by Radosław Zalewski, Mateusz Puślecki, Łukasz Szarpak, Tomasz Kłosiewicz, Marek Dąbrowski, Bartłomiej Perek

“…Two 10-minute scenarios of SCA in the mechanism of ventricular fibrillation were analysed. In the first one, teams had at their disposal defibrillator with hard paddles (group C), whereas in the second one, adhesive electrodes were used (group MFE). …”
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In-Hospital and Long-Term Prognosis after Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery; 19-Year Experience by Predrag M. Mitrovic, Branislav Stefanovic, Zorana Vasiljevic, Mina Radovanovic, Nebojsa Radovanovic, Gordana Krljanac, Ana Novakovic, Miodrag Ostojic

“…There was more ventricular fibrillation in the postbypass group. In-hospital mortality was similar (p = 0.3675). …”
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Unusual hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: case report of an early onset wild-type ATTR amyloidosis accompanied by a chromosomal duplication involving the MYH6 and MYH7 gene by Jassin Hamidi, Yvonne Hanel, Sven Dittmann, Wanda Maria Gerding, Huu Phuc Nguyen, Karin Klingel, Eric Schulze-Bahr

“…Typical symptoms associated with HCM include atrial fibrillation (AF), syncope, ventricular fibrillation, and cardiac arrest. At the molecular level, various genetic and/or non-genetic etiologies can lead to HCM.Case summaryIn this case, we report on a 60-year-old male patient with severe, progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in an uncommon and ambivalent setting. …”
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Fabry cardiomyopathy: Gb3‐induced auto‐reactive panmyocarditis requiring heart transplantation by Andrea Frustaci, Maurizio Scarpa, Rosalia Maria da Riol, Chiara Agrati, Nicoletta Finato, Romina Verardo, Claudia Grande, Cristina Chimenti, Concetta Di Nora, Matteo Antonio Russo, Ugolini Livi

“…Examining the explanted heart from a 57‐year‐old man with FD cardiomyopathy (CM) on 3‐year ERT presenting incoming ventricular fibrillation, we documented a severe virus‐negative myocarditis extended to cardiomyocytes, intramural coronary vessels, conduction tissue, and subepicardial ganglia. …”
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Depression Paradox in Cardiovascular Outcomes of Adult Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from 2 Million Nationwide Hospitalizations by Rupak Desai, Sashwath Srikanth, Shaylika Chauhan, Zainab Gandhi, Warda Shahnawaz, Aleen Rahman, Bisharah Rizvi, Akhil Jain

“…Paradoxically, there was decreased risk of all-cause mortality [odds ratios (OR): 0.79, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.73-0.86], major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (OR: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.80-0.87), acute MI (OR: 0.80, 95% CI: 0.76-0.85), dysrhythmia/atrial fibrillation (OR: 0.81, 95% CI: 0.79-0.83), and cardiac arrest including ventricular fibrillation (OR: 0.65, 95% CI: 0.73-0.82) in the OSA+D+ cohort (P < 0.001). …”
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Impact of Postshock Transcutaneous Pacing on Chest Compression Quality during Resuscitation: A Simulation-Based Pilot Study by Wojciech Telec, Tomasz Kłosiewicz, Radosław Zalewski, Julia Żukowska-Karolak, Artur Baszko, Mateusz Puślecki

“…Participants were asked to take part in a 10-minute adult cardiac arrest scenario with ventricular fibrillation. In the first simulation, paramedics had to resume compressions after each shock (control group). …”
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Comparing clinical only and combined clinical laboratory models for ECPR outcomes in refractory cardiac arrest by Chun-Chieh Chiu, Yu-Jun Chang, Chun-Wen Chiu, Ying-Chen Chen, Yung-Kun Hsieh, Shun-Wen Hsiao, Hsu-Heng Yen, Fu-Yuan Siao

“…Survivors had significantly higher rates of initial shockable rhythm, pulseless ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, shorter low-flow time (CPR-to-ECMO time), lower lactate levels, and higher initial pH. …”
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Conversion from Nonshockable to Shockable Rhythms and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes by Initial Heart Rhythm and Rhythm Conversion Time by Wanwan Zhang, Shengyuan Luo, Daya Yang, Yongshu Zhang, Jinli Liao, Liwen Gu, Wankun Li, Zhihao Liu, Yan Xiong, Ahamed Idris

“…The conversion from a nonshockable rhythm (asystole or pulseless electrical activity (PEA)) to a shockable rhythm (pulseless ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation) may be associated with better out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outcomes. …”
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Characteristics and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among students under school supervision in Japan: a descriptive epidemiological study (2008–2021) by Kosuke Kiyohara, Mamoru Ayusawa, Masahiko Nitta, Takeichiro Sudo, Taku Iwami, Ken Nakata, Yuri Kitamura, Tetsuhisa Kitamura

“…The delivery of defibrillation using public-access automated external defibrillators was also significantly less frequent in non-cardiac (3.3%) and traumatic cases (6.2%) than that in cardiac cases (59.8%; p < 0.001). Ventricular fibrillation (VF) as the first documented rhythm was observed in 77.9% of cardiac cases but was much less common in non-cardiac (5.5%) and traumatic cases (8.6%; p < 0.001). …”
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Impact of Late Ventricular Arrhythmias on Cardiac Mortality in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Takuma Takada, Koki Shishido, Takahiro Hayashi, Shohei Yokota, Hirokazu Miyashita, Hiroaki Yokoyama, Takashi Nishimoto, Tomoki Ochiai, Noriaki Moriyama, Kazuki Tobita, Shingo Mizuno, Futoshi Yamanaka, Masato Murakami, Yutaka Tanaka, Saeko Takahashi, Shigeru Saito

“…This study investigated the relationship between the timing of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (VT or VF) and prognosis in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). …”
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