BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) may induce complex ventricular arrhythmias resulting in sudden cardiac death. It is essential to find an effective non-invasive diagnostic method allowing to select patients at risk of life-threatening arrhythmias. Our objective was to examine Doppler predictors of AF in patients with WPW and atrioventricu...

Abstract Background Among patients with an aborted episode of malignant ventricular arrhythmias without a reversible cause, the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) is considered important therapy for secondary prevention sudden cardiac death (SCD). Some authors propose primary catheter ablation and deferred ICD implantation may be preferred approach in substrate-related tachycardia. Pu...

Introduction Brugada syndrome is known to be a life-threatening disease provoking lethal arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VF), but non–implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) treatment strategy remains a topic of discussion. Substrate-based catheter ablation of Brugada syndrome has been reported to be effective, but much is still unknown, for example, t...

We report a case of CPPD crowned dens syndrome in an 87 year white old male with a known history of pseudogout, with clinical and radiological features characteristic of this syndrome. Interestingly, there was significant mass effect on the clivus, with clivus erosion and destruction, a finding that has not previously been described with this syndrome. The clinical and radiological characterist...

Aims: Facial image analysis is the main direction of facial diagnosis objectification, where realistic colors in medical images are essential clues for disease diagnosis. However, same person's color information will have different display under light sources and devices, which may lead to diagnostic results.
 Methodology: Firstly, we conducted group experiments on selection patches select...

patients tolerated the procedure well, with minimal discomfort. In the retrograde aortic group, I patient had a large hematoma at the site of the arterial puncture, and another had ventricular fibrillation related to a sudden impedance increase during the successful radiofre-quency ablation attempt. After ablation, patients were treated with aspirin (325 mglday for 1 month). Radiofrequency abla...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of flecainide therapy in neonates and infants with drug resistant incessant supraventricular tachycardia. METHODS The study included 11 neonates and infants who received medical and/or ablation therapy between January 2010 and December 2013. Mean patient age and weight were 101.6 ± 96 days and 5.3 ± 1.9 kg respectively. Of the 12 patients, 5...