To the Editor:A 66-year-old male patient was referred to the First Hospital of Lanzhou University with complaints of sudden dizziness,with nausea and emesis.His medical history revealed heavy smoking for 40 years,and ...
Background:Little is known about the risk factors for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the overall hospitalized cardiac department population.This study was conducted to investigate the risk factors and develop a predict...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81530032 and No. 81500794), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (No. 2014CB943001), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M613326), and the New Researcher Foundation of the PLA General Hospital (No. 14KMZ04).
Background:Bilateral sudden sensorineural hearing loss (BSSHL) is rare and assumed to be a different clinical entity compared to unilateral SSHL (USSHL).This study examined the differences between the idiopathic ...
To the Editor: A 47-year-old male of chest discomfort for 2 weeks patient was admitted because He had no obvious incentive precordial discomtfort 2 weeks ago, accompanied by palpitation. He immediately went to the to...
This study was supported by a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81172745).
Background Underlying diseases have a statistically significant positive correlation to sudden death. However, sudden unexplained death (SUD) is different from sudden death, as there is no clinical evidence to suppo...
This study was supporied by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81172745).
Background There is a yearly increase in the rate of sudden unexplained death (SUD), even through extensive physical examination and the testing of a large number of biomarkers, the cause of sudden death in patients...
Background Post myocardial infarction (post-MI) patients with low left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have been candidates for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) since the Multicenter Automati...
Endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has gained increasing acceptance as a less invasive alternative to conventional open vein harvesting. With this procedure, carbon dioxi...
Myoglobin, myosin creatine kinase MM (CK-MM),creatine kinase BB(CK-BB) in cardiac muscle and H chain ofmyosin in atrial and ventricular muscle were studied in speci-mens from 8 patients who died of sudden nocturnal de...