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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
(3) Patients in the high-risk subgroup were not further evaluated. For example, those with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in ambulatory Holter ECG might have been subjected to an invasive electr...
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Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Syncope
Syncope has been related to atrial or ventricular tachyarrhythmias or bradyarrhythmias, heart block, obstruction to left ventricular outflow, diastolic dysfunction, altered baroreflex mechanisms, and ...
Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Left ventricular hypertrophy
Second, left ventricular hypertrophy was not severe Third, family history of sudden death, a significant risk factor for sudden death, especially in the young, was low. Fourth, all symptomatic patient...
Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Ventricular arrhythmias
The prevalence of ventricular arrhythmias at initial examination was low in the Greek patient population and decreased with time. The exact pathophysiology underlying this low arrhythmogenic substrate...
Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Physician exchanges
Physician exchanges from one country to another increase these types of communication differences. In a scientific study, interobserver agreement is a primary axiom of rational decisions. It has been ...
Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Pulmonary Embolism
It has been found that variations in the framing of a statement can impact the decision process. Terms such as “no arguments for pulmonary embolism” or “no convincing evidence for pulmonary embolism” ...
Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Perfusion scans
Two studies have recently suggested that perfusion scans combined with chest radiographs give positive predictive values for pulmonary embolism similar to those of ventila-tion-perfusion scans. Howeve...
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Ventilation studies
Results were similar when the analysis was restricted to the 37 lung scans with both perfusion and ventilation studies. The standardized conclusions for these 37 lung scans were 7 “high probability” (...
Muhammad Herbert posted a blog.
Lung scans
Furthermore, the inter-clinician agreement ranged from 50 to 67% with poor-to-moder-ate kappa indexes (Table 1). Agreement among the three clinicians was observed for 33 (40.2%) reports (6 “high proba...
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Clinicians’ Analyses of Descriptive Reports
Next, we evaluated in paired comparisons (1) the agreement between the clinicians’ interpretation of the routine reports and (2) the agreement among clinicians’ interpretations of the descriptive rout...
