Sudden Arrhythmic Death: What Is the Gold Standard?

Neal A Chatterjee^{1

2}, Christine M Albert^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Preventive Medicine (N.A.C., C.M.A.).
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (N.A.C.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.AcknowledgmentThis work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL091069-1 to Dr Albert).
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (C.M.A.).

Editorial

Neal A Chatterjee et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;12(7):e007474.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.119.007474. Epub 2019 Jun 28.

Neal A Chatterjee^{1

2}, Christine M Albert^{1

3}

¹ Division of Preventive Medicine (N.A.C., C.M.A.).
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (N.A.C.), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.AcknowledgmentThis work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL091069-1 to Dr Albert).
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (C.M.A.).

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; autopsy; death; defibrillators; population; public health.

Comment on

Refining the World Health Organization Definition: Predicting Autopsy-Defined Sudden Arrhythmic Deaths Among Presumed Sudden Cardiac Deaths in the POST SCD Study.
Tseng ZH, Salazar JW, Olgin JE, Ursell PC, Kim AS, Bedigian A, Probert J, Hart AP, Moffatt E, Vittinghoff E. Tseng ZH, et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2019 Jul;12(7):e007171. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.119.007171. Epub 2019 Jun 28. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2019. PMID: 31248279 Free PMC article.

1. Myerburg RJ, Goldberger JJ. Sudden Cardiac Arrest Risk Assessment: Population Science and the Individual Risk Mandate. JAMA Cardiol. 2017;2:689–694. - PubMed
1. Bardy GH1, Lee KL, Mark DB, Poole JE, Packer DL, Boineau R, Domanski M, Troutman C, Anderson J, Johnson G, McNulty SE, Clapp-Channing N, Davidson-Ray LD, Fraulo ES, Fishbein DP, Luceri RM, Ip JH; Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) Investigators. Amiodarone or an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for congestive heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:225–37. - PubMed
1. Moss AJ, Zareba W, Hall WJ, Klein H, Wilber DJ, Cannom DS, Daubert JP, Higgins SL, Brown MW, Andrews ML. Prophylactic implantation of a defibrillator in patients with myocardial infarction and reduced ejection fraction. N Engl J Med. 2002;346:877–83. - PubMed
1. Hayashi M, Shimizu W, Albert CM. The spectrum of epidemiology underlying sudden cardiac death. Circ Res. 2015;116:1887–906. - PMC - PubMed
1. Fishman GI, Chugh SS, Dimarco JP, Albert CM, Anderson ME, Bonow RO, Buxton AE, Chen PS, Estes M, Jouven X, Kwong R, Lathrop DA, Mascette AM, Nerbonne JM, O’Rourke B, Page RL, Roden DM, Rosenbaum DS, Sotoodehnia N, Trayanova NA, Zheng ZJ. Sudden cardiac death prediction and prevention: report from a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Heart Rhythm Society Workshop. Circulation. 2010;122:2335–48. - PMC - PubMed