ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2019
Long-Term Follow-Up of Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation in a Pediatric Population: Clinical Characteristics, Management, and Complications.
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- Diagnosis and management of very rare primary arrhythmia syndromes in children and adults: a Clinical Consensus Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association of the ESC and the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions of the ESC, endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026Guideline
- Clinical manifestations and outcomes of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and early repolarization syndrome in adolescents: A multicenter cohort study.Heart rhythm O2 · 2026Article
- Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation - Just How Much Idiopathic is it?Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Assessment of Sudden Cardiac Death Risk in Pediatric Primary Electrical Disorders: A Comprehensive Overview.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- State-of-the-Art Multimodality Imaging in Sudden Cardiac Arrest with Focus on Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation: A Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Short-coupled premature ventricular beats leading to ventricular fibrillation in a young patient: A Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome case report and literature review.HeartRhythm case reports · 2020Article
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to idiopathic ventricular fibrillation in patients with normal electrocardiograms: results from a multicentre long-term registry.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2019Article
- Long-Term Follow-Up of Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation in a Pediatric Population: Clinical Characteristics, Management, and Complications.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
Background The natural history and long-term outcome in pediatric patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation ( IVF ) are poorly characterized. We sought to define the clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes of a pediatric cohort with an initial diagnosis of IVF . Methods and Results Patients were included from an International Registry of IVF (consisting of 496 patients). Inclusion criteria were: (1) VF with no identifiable cause following comprehensive analysis for ischemic, electrical or structural heart disease and (2) age ≤16 years. These included 54 pediatric IVF cases (age 12.7±3.7 years, 59% male) among whom 28 (52%) had a previous history of syncope (median 2 syncopal episodes [interquartile range 1]). Thirty-six (67%) had VF in situations associated with high adrenergic tone. During a median 109±12 months of follow-up, 31 patients (57%) had recurrence of ventricular arrhythmias, mainly VF . Two patients developed phenotypic expression of an inherited arrhythmia syndrome during follow-up (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and long QT syndrome, respectively). A total of 15 patients had positive genetic testing for inherited arrhythmia syndromes. Ten patients (18%) experienced device-related complications. Three patients (6%) died, 2 due to VF storm. Conclusions In pediatric patients with IVF , a minority develop a definite clinical phenotype during long-term follow-up. Recurrent VF is common in this patient group.
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