ALLMedicine™ Cardioverter-defibrillator Implantation Center

May 3rd, 2022 - The use of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator to prevent sudden cardiac death is an approved method. Experience is limited regarding implantation techniques in infants and low-weight children. We herein describe the implantation of an epica...

Apr 20th, 2022 - Adverse remodelling following an initial insult is the hallmark of heart failure (HF) development and progression. It is manifested as changes in size, shape, and function of the myocardium. While cardiac remodelling may be compensatory in the sho...

Apr 15th, 2022 - A diagnosis of congenital long QT interval syndrome based on history and electrocardiogram was made in a child in the absence of readily available genetic testing. A genotype 3 (LQT3) was suspected after exclusion of other variants as the child wa...

Apr 9th, 2022 - Sudden cardiac death (SCD) causes high mortality and substantial societal burdens for healthcare systems (HSs). The risk of SCD is significantly increased in patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction after myocardial infarction (MI)...

Feb 13th, 2022 - Substernal and subcutaneous electrocardiograms during subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation.|2022|Ishida Y,Itoh T,Sasaki S,Washima S,Toyama Y,|

Jan 11th, 2019 - Myocarditis is a serious social problem, usually affecting young or middle-aged people. Making of the diagnosis of myocarditis, due to the varied course of the disease, is a significant challenge, therefore clinical suspicion of myocarditis is bas...

Dec 30th, 2019 - Few arrhythmic complications or conduction system disorders requiring action would go undetected if hospitals cut routine continuous ECG monitoring after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to save costs, a single-center study suggested. Amon...

Jul 3rd, 2013 - The Headline Declared: "Elderly Benefit From Using Implantable Defibrillators" Gulp. Headlines and press releases have come to scare me, especially when the elderly or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are mentioned. One could look aw...

Oct 20th, 2009 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that current guidelines recommend the use of aldosterone antagonists in patients with moderate to servere heart failure who meet established criteria. A simple, inexpensive intervention -- aldosterone a...