Vnitr Lek 2001, 47(9):634-641
[Sudden cardiac death--a problem in cardiology today].
- Interní kardiologická klinika FN Brno, pracovistĕ Bohunice.
Klíčová slova: Arrhythmias, Cardiac /complications/; Death, Sudden, Cardiac /epidemiology/; Humans; Prognosis; Risk Factors
More than 2500 persons from European population die of sudden cardiac death every day. Nearly 90% of these cases are caused by malignant ventricular arrhythmias, which develop most frequently on the basement of structural heart disease. Some subpopulations of patients can be marked as a high risk for sudden cardiac death according to the today stratification procedures and can be treated in a pharmacological or nonpharmacological ways. The ways are as follows: a chronic therapy with beta-blockers agents, therapy of congestive heart failure, myocardial revascularization and implantation of cardioverter-defibrillator. The prognosis of patients treated in those ways in comparison with conservatively treated groups is very good.
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