Sudden Cardiac Death

1. Sudden cardiac death 1990: An update.- 2. Epidemiology of sudden cardiac death.- 3. Out-of-hospital sudden death in Spain.- 4. Thrombosis, antithrombotic therapy and sudden death.- 5. The potential for antiarrhythmic drugs to reduce mortality from sudden cardiac death.- 6. Value of beta-blockers in the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias.- 7. Psychological stress and sudden cardiac death.- 8. Acute and chronic components of ischaemia in acute ischaemic syndromes.- 9. Markers and trigger mechanisms of sudden cardiac death: Excercise and sports activity.- 10. Lessons from recordings of sudden death by Bolter monitoring.- 11. Profile of the candidate for sudden cardiac death.- 12. Sudden death in patients with intraventricular conduction disorders.- 13. Acute drug test.- 14. Malignant ventricular arrhythmias: Serial electrophysiologic testing.- 15. Non pharmacological treatment of ventricular tachycardia.- 16. Fulguration of chronic ventricular tachycardia. Results on 53 consecutive cases with a follow-up ranging from 8 to 70 months.- 17. Transcoronary chemical ablation of tachycardias.- 18. Sudden death and the autonomic nervous system: The prognostic value of heart rate variability.- 19. Ventricular electrical instability: Markers and trigger mechanisms.- 20. Risk factors of sudden cardiac death after acute myocardial infarction: Ventricular disfunction, ischemia and ventricular arrhythmias.- 21. Acute non-Q wave myocardial infarction: A summary of the diltiazem reinfarction study (DRS) and the multicenter diltiazem post-infarction trial (MDPIT).- 22. Treatment of heart failure: Impact on sudden death.- 23. Can sudden death be avoided by timely revascularization of obstructed coronary arteries?.- 24. Sudden cardiac death: A multifactorial problem.- 25. Final conclusions.