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The incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany is about 100.000 to 120.000 cases per year. Apart from cases of ventricular fibrillation (VF) related to myocardial ischaemia, e.g. acute myocardial infarction, the main reason for SCD is the occurrence of ventricular tachyarrhythmiaslike ventricular fibrillation with functional cardiac arrest and sustained ventricular tachcardias (VT) as a cause of a chronic arrhythmogenic substrate. The latter group exhibits, in comparison to individuals who survive a life-threatening acute myocardial infarction, a high risk of a recurrent cardiac arrest. Sudden cardiac death most often occurs in the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) (90% of SCD patients). In a significant number of patients (13%-20%) it is the initial symptom of CAD. VF emerges in most cases (70%) secondarily from a VT and only in 10% primarily from a premature beat [7, 12].
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Kestler, H.A., Schwenker, F., Palm, G., Wöhrle, J., Höher, M. (2000). Neural Classification in High-Resolution ECG Signal Processing. In: Osterhues, HH., Hombach, V., Moss, A.J. (eds) Advances in Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Monitoring Techniques. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 229. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4090-4_43
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