Interní Med. 2009; 11(5): 211-214

Sudden cardiac death

MUDr. Milan Kozák Ph.D
Interní kardiologická klinika FN a LF MU v Brně

More than 2.500 persons from European population die of sudden cardiac death every day. Nearly 90 % of these cases are caused by

malignant ventricular arrhythmias, which develope 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 betablockers agents, therapy of

congestive heart failure, myocardial revascularisation and implantation of cardioverter-defibrillator. The prognosis of patients treated

in those ways in comparison with conservatively treated groups is very good.

Keywords: sudden cardiac death, defibrillation, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

Published: June 1, 2009  Show citation

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