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Studies on Ventricular Arrhythmias in Animal Models of Ischemic Heart Disease: What can We Learn?

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Abstract

Sudden cardiac death often is a direct consequence of ventricular fibrillation. Individuals who have ventricular fibrillation may have a high incidence of ventricular premature depolarizations and tachycardia prior to its occurrence. The ventricular fibrillation may be related to this high incidence of other ventricular arrhythmias, at least in some instances (1). Since sudden death most often occurs in the setting of atherosclerotic heart disease the ventricular arrhythmias and the fibrillation are most likely caused by cardiac ischemia. Myocardial infarction may or may not be present. A significant number of individuals resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation have shown no evidence of infarction (2) but sudden death also occurs in individuals with fresh or old myocardial infarcts (3).

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  1. School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    H. E. Kulbertus

  2. Department of Cardiology, Annadal Hospital, University of Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands

    H. J. J. Wellens

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Karagueuzian, H.S., Wit, A.L. (1980). Studies on Ventricular Arrhythmias in Animal Models of Ischemic Heart Disease: What can We Learn?. In: Kulbertus, H.E., Wellens, H.J.J. (eds) Sudden Death. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8834-7_5

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