Numerous factors can contribute to sudden cardiac death, from underlying disease after myocardial infarction to genetic variants that can claim young lives. In 'Bedside to Bench', Stanley Nattel ...

Young, trained athletes may have abnormal 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) without evidence of structural cardiac disease. Whether such ECG patterns represent the initial expression of underlying ...

An electrocardiogram is a picture of the electrical conduction of the heart. By examining changes from normal on the ECG, clinicians can identify a multitude of cardiac disease processes. There are ...

Early repolarization, which is characterized by an elevation of the QRS–ST junction (J point) in leads other than V 1 through V 3 on 12-lead electrocardiography, has been associated with vulnerability ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cardiac repolarization dynamics seemed to cycle in sync with the menstrual cycle of some people with congenital and drug-induced long QT syndrome (LQTS), a small prospective study ...

An arrhythmia (also termed cardiac dysrhythmia) is described as an irregular heartbeat caused by aberrant electrical activity in the heart. There are multiple categories of arrhythmia, each of which ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy can be diagnosed on ECG with good specificity. When the myocardium is hypertrophied, there is a larger mass of myocardium for electrical activation to pass through; thus ...