Epidemiology, Classification, and Clinical Impact of Ventricular Tachycardia/Ventricular Fibrillation

• Published in: Ventricular Tachycardia / Fibrillation Ablation pp. 1 - 45
• Main Authors: Natale, Andrea, Raviele, Antonio
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated 2009; Wiley‐Blackwell
• Subjects: Brugada syndrome ‐ high incidence of syncope or SCD; Cardiothoracic surgery; Cardiovascular medicine; classification and clinical impact of VT/VF; electrophysiological mechanisms of VT in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM); epidemiology; hemodynamically unstable ‐ sudden cardiac death; isolated VPCs mechanisms or nonsustained or sustained VT; survival from ventricular tachycardia (VT) and sudden cardiac death (SCD); systolic ventricular dysfunction; ventricular arrhythmias ‐ in normal subjects and subjects with structural heart disease; ventricular arrhythmias ‐ manifesting as sudden cardiac death (SCD); ventricular premature complexes and His‐Purkinje system (HPS)
• ISBN: 144433073X; 9781444330731
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444317077.ch1

This chapter contains sections titled: Epidemiology of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation Classification of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation Classification according to the duration of ventricular arrhythmias Classification according to QRS morphologies Classification according to clinical characteristics of ventricular tachycardia Conditions associated with ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation Coronary heart disease as the most frequent cause of ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death Natural history of patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmias and ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias in ischemic cardiomyopathy Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy Impact of sudden cardiac death in the natural history of ischemic and nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy with a history of heart failure The different natural history of ischemic and nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy patients Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: its role in sudden cardiac death and mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias related to this entity Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death with special emphasis on athletes Congenital heart disease Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia The Brugada syndrome The long QT syndrome Drug‐induced ventricular arrhythmias Ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation clinical presentation: hemodynamically stable and hemodynamically unstable References