In the US, the annual prevalence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) is more than 450,000 deaths per year, i.e. 500 to 1000 deaths/day. All over the world SCD accounts for 17 million deaths/year. In the Chinese population, this figure is almost 500,000/year. The most frequent precursors of SCD are ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation(VF). Important preventive measures for SCD must be applied before its occurrence. Almost all presently used preventive methods for detection of high risk individuals for development of VT/VF fall short of this objective, because cardiac repolarization instability does not lend itself to routine EKG or 24-hour heart rate monitoring. This book introduces a new method for detecting cardiac repolarization instability, noninvasively in patients and the general population, with a high degree of accuracy unreported hitherto.
Author Biography:
Member, Editorial Board, Pediatrician (Publisher, S. Karger, Basel) Switzerland. Recipient of American College of Cardiology Young Investigators Competition Award, Washington D. C., Feb 1971. Instructor in pediatric cardiology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 1971 July, Dec 1971. Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Assistant Professor in Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center. Chicago, Illinois, 1972 Jan -1974. Acting Director of the EKG Laboratory, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1972-74. Chief of Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Queen Pahlavi Cardiovascular Center, Tehran, Iran, Jan 1974- July 1984. Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, at Heart Hospital, Iran School of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1986-2007 Director Department of Pediatric Cardiology. Former Director of Electrophysiology Laboratory, Director of Noninvasive Electrophysiology Laboratory, Day General Hospital, Tehran, Iran, 1986-Continuing.
