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      Muerte súbita por causa eléctrica en sujetos sin enfermedad cardíaca estructural demostrable: Experiencia cubana Translated title: Sudden death due to electrical causes in individuals without demonstrable structural cardiac disease: Experience in Cuba

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          La muerte súbita cardíaca de causa eléctrica en sujetos con corazón "sano", constituye un problema clínico y de salud pública, aún no resuelto. Los objetivos del trabajo fueron: caracterizar pacientes reanimados de un evento de muerte súbita de causa eléctrica y conocer su evolución intervenida en tres años; y estudiar los signos eléctricos premonitorios de muerte súbita. Se estudiaron 42 sujetos, 30 hombres y 12 mujeres, edad promedio 37.7 años, con corazón "sano", por métodos clínicos y paraclínicos. Se consideraron 9 subpoblaciones, en mayor número los síndromes de Brugada y de QT largo y la fibrilación ventricular idiopática. Las arritmias responsables del evento fueron, en primer lugar, la fibrilación ventricular y la torsión de puntas. Existieron signos premonitorios en el 92.8% de los pacientes. Fueron frecuentes las recidivas de las arritmias malignas (71.4%) aunque en la estimulación eléctrica programada, sólo se logró reproducirlas en 4 de 18 pacientes. La fibrilación auricular predominó como arritmia coexistente (19%). En resumen, son frecuentes los signos premonitorios (en especial la fibrilación auricular) y las recidivas de las arritmias malignas aunque su inducibilidad en el laboratorio es pobre. La estratificación de riesgo es muy difícil, por el bajo valor predictivo de los métodos diagnósticos.

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          Sudden cardiac death due to electrical causes in individuals with no evidence of structural heart disease is an important clinical and public health problem, and it is not yet solved. The objectives of this study were: to characterize patients reanimated from a sudden death event of electrical cause; to know the mediated evolution during a period of three years and to study premonitory electrical signs. 42 individuals were studied, 30 were male and 12 female, mean age 37.7 years, healthy heart, by clinic and paraclinic methods. Nine subpopulations were studied, being Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome and idiopathic ventricular fibrillation the most frequent. Ventricular fibrillation and twisting of the points were the arrhythmias responsible for most death events. There were premonitory signs in 92.8% and clinical recurrences of life-threatening events in 71.4% but they were induced during programmed electrical stimulation only in 4 of 18 patients. Atrial fibrillation was the most frequent coexistent arrhythmia (19%). In summary, there are frequent premonitory signs (particularly atrial fibrillation), and also malignant arrhythmic recurrences but a poor inducibility at the electrophysiology laboratory. It is very difficult to stratify the risk because of the low predictive value of diagnostic methods.

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              Sudden cardiac death with apparently normal heart.

              Mechanisms of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in subjects with apparently normal hearts are poorly understood. In survivors, clinical investigations may not establish normal cardiac structure with certainty. Large autopsy series may provide a unique opportunity to confirm structural normalcy of the heart before reviewing a patient's clinical history. We identified and reexamined structurally normal hearts from a 13-year series of archived hearts of patients who had sudden cardiac death. Subsequently, for each patient with a structurally normal heart, a detailed review of the circumstances of death as well as clinical history was performed. Of 270 archived SCD hearts identified, 190 were male and 80 female (mean age 42 years); 256 (95%) had evidence of structural abnormalities and 14 (5%) were structurally normal. In the group with structurally normal hearts (mean age 35 years), SCD was the first manifestation of disease in 7 (50%) of the 14 cases. In 6 cases, substances were identified in serum at postmortem examination without evidence of drug overdose; 2 of these chemicals have known associations with SCD. On analysis of ECGs, preexcitation was found in 2 cases. Comorbid conditions identified were seizure disorder and obesity (2 cases each). In 6 cases, there were no identifiable conditions associated with SCD. In 50% of cases of SCD with structurally normal hearts, sudden death was the first manifestation of disease. An approach combining archived heart examinations with detailed review of the clinical history was effective in elucidating potential SCD mechanisms in 57% of cases.
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                Archivos de cardiología de México
                Arch. Cardiol. Méx.
                Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                1405-9940
                1665-1731
                December 2004
                : 74
                : 4
                : 283-289
                Affiliations
                [01] Habana orgnameInstituto de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular Cuba
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                S1405-99402004000400005 S1405-9940(04)07400400005
                794e6a07-646c-4464-ae94-90625e217379

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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                : 08 March 2004
                : 19 May 2004
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                Investigación clínica

                Normal heart,Arritmias malignas,Corazón sano,Muerte súbita cardíaca,Malignant arrhythmias,Sudden cardiac death

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