Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death: Is It Too Late to Establish a Role for Cardiac MRI?

Timothy M Markman; Saman Nazarian

doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027958

Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death: Is It Too Late to Establish a Role for Cardiac MRI?

Circulation. 2017 May 30;135(22):2116-2118. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027958. Epub 2017 Mar 28.

Authors

Timothy M Markman¹, Saman Nazarian²

Affiliations

¹ From Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (T.M.M.); and Division of Cardiology, Section for Cardiac Electrophysiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S.N.).
² From Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (T.M.M.); and Division of Cardiology, Section for Cardiac Electrophysiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S.N.). saman.nazarian@uphs.upenn.edu.

PMID: 28351902
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027958

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; cardiomyopathies; death, sudden, cardiac; defibrillators, implantable; gadolinium DTPA; tachycardia, ventricular; ventricular ejection fraction.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathy, Dilated*
Death, Sudden, Cardiac
Gadolinium*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left

Substances

Gadolinium