title: Sudden cardiac death in persons with normal (or near normal) hearts.
abstract: I have tried to provide a broad overview of the problem of cardiac arrest in the absence of structural heart disease or in the presence of minimal disease, as well as those disease states that are difficult to recognize. Exciting progress in this field has been made in recent years and I anticipate that we will continue to make progress in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33102, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Myerburg
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000150:complications; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000503:physiopathology; D003042:Cocaine / Q000009:adverse effects; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000187:drug effects; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology; D012307:Risk Factors; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000503:physiopathology; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D003042:Cocaine