"Ventricular Fibrillation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia that is characterized by uncoordinated extremely rapid firing of electrical impulses (400-600/min) in HEART VENTRICLES. Such asynchronous ventricular quivering or fibrillation prevents any effective cardiac output and results in unconsciousness (SYNCOPE). It is one of the major electrocardiographic patterns seen with CARDIAC ARREST.
| Descriptor ID |
D014693
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.280.067.922 C23.550.073.922
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| Concept/Terms |
Ventricular Fibrillation- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Fibrillation, Ventricular
- Fibrillations, Ventricular
- Ventricular Fibrillations
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ventricular Fibrillation" by people in Profiles.
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Ventricular Fibrillation Associated With Coronary Plaque Erosion Detected by Optical Coherence Tomography. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2020 01 13; 13(1):e5-e7.
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Cardiac sympathectomy and spinal cord stimulation attenuate reflex-mediated norepinephrine release during ischemia preventing ventricular fibrillation. JCI Insight. 2019 12 05; 4(23).
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Clinical characteristics and long-term clinical course of patients with Brugada syndrome without previous cardiac arrest: a multiparametric risk stratification approach. Europace. 2019 12 01; 21(12):1911-1918.
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High-risk percutaneous coronary intervention in the era of public reporting: clinical and ethical considerations in the care of an elderly patient with critical left main disease and shock. Circulation. 2014 Jan 14; 129(2):258-65.
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Defibrillation threshold testing does not predict clinical outcomes during long-term follow-up: a meta-analysis. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2013 Nov; 36(11):1402-8.
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Mechanistic insights into initiation and maintenance of ventricular fibrillation: implications for catheter ablation. Acta Cardiol. 2010 Feb; 65(1):15-22.
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Prediction of unexpected sudden death among healthy dogs by a novel marker of autonomic neural activity. Heart Rhythm. 2008 Feb; 5(2):300-5.
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Analysis of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) Trial. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2003 Sep; 14(9):940-8.
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Combined sodium and calcium channel blockade in prevention of lethal arrhythmias. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2003 May; 41(5):665-70.
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Comparison of arrhythmia recurrence in patients presenting with ventricular fibrillation versus ventricular tachycardia in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) trial. Am J Cardiol. 2003 Apr 01; 91(7):812-6.