Abstract
Coronary artery disease, which continues to be the primary cause of death and morbidity in the western world, has a variety of potential clinical presentations. The fortunate patient is one who presents with symptoms of left ventricular dysfunction (congestive heart failure) or ischemia (angina pectoris). The presentation of the clinical syndrome of acute myocardial infarction carries with it the immediate loss of myocardial tissue and a high rate of peri-infarction death. Unfortunately, the most common presentation in the industrialized world is sudden cardiac death, which affects at least one individual per minute in the United States (Lown 1979).
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Morganroth, J. (1983). Identification of the Patient at High Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death. In: Schlepper, M., Olsson, B. (eds) Cardiac Arrhythmias. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68926-0_3
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