title: [Sudden cardiac death--a problem in cardiology today].
abstract: More than 2500 persons from European population die of sudden cardiac death every day. Nearly 90% of these cases are caused by malignant ventricular arrhythmias, which develop most frequently on the basement of structural heart disease. Some subpopulations of patients can be marked as a high risk for sudden cardiac death according to the today stratification procedures and can be treated in a pharmacological or nonpharmacological ways. The ways are as follows: a chronic therapy with beta-blockers agents, therapy of congestive heart failure, myocardial revascularization and implantation of cardioverter-defibrillator. The prognosis of patients treated in those ways in comparison with conservatively treated groups is very good.
authors.affiliation: Interní kardiologická klinika FN Brno, pracovistĕ Bohunice.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kozák
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors