From Diagnostic Mimicry to Diagnostic Clarity
Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Ibrahim Akin, Muchtiar Khan, Loek van Heerebeek, Nazha Hamdani · 2026
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Description
Ibrahim El-Battrawy and co-authors discuss how a heart diagnosis can shift from one condition to another. Their 2026 piece deals with sudden cardiac death, a leading cause of death from heart disease across the world. It claims four to five million lives a year. In older people, blocked arteries dominate. In the young, inherited heart muscle and electrical disorders are major causes.
Muscle disorders show up on heart imaging. Electrical disorders show on heart tracings, at rest or under provocation. Some patients still have no found cause after full checks. Their condition is then called idiopathic ventricular fibrillation, a diagnosis by exclusion. A case in the same issue moves from a presumed electrical disorder to that label. The authors stress repeat checks and long rhythm monitoring.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Ibrahim Akin, Muchtiar Khan, Loek van Heerebeek, Nazha Hamdani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |