Sudden Cardiac Death Caused by Coronary Heart Disease
Sudden Cardiac Death Caused by Coronary Heart Disease
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DOI:
10.1161/circulationaha.111.023846
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发表时间:
2012-02-28
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
Junttila, M. Juhani
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作者:
Myerburg, Robert J.;Junttila, M. Juhani
An association between the anatomic pathology and pathophysiology of coronary atherosclerosis and sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been long recognized. At the end of the 15th century, Da Vinci described a personally witnessed SCD that he attributed to a “parched and shrunk and withered… artery that feeds the heart” at autopsy, 1 and in 1812, Warren, commenting on the significance of Heberden’s description of angina pectoris, reported a patient who died suddenly a short time after presenting with an anginal pattern of chest pain. 2 However, insights into the magnitude and mechanisms of SCD as a consequence of the presence and extent of coronary atherosclerosis, its underlying vascular pathophysiology, the myocardial electrophysiology, and the role of ischemic cardiomyopathy began to unravel only during the past 50 years. Despite a rapidly developing base of knowledge about the tachyarrhythmic manifestations of acute coronary syndromes and chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy, especially during the past 25 years, that resulted from extensive clinical, investigative, and interventional advances, important challenges remain for the prediction and prevention of SCD caused by coronary heart disease (CHD). 3