The long-term survival and the risks and benefits of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

C O'Mahony, PD Lambiase, G Quarta, M Cardona… - Heart, 2012 - heart.bmj.com
Objective Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are routinely used to prevent sudden
cardiac death (SCD) in selected hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients, but the …

The relation of ventricular arrhythmia electrophysiological characteristics to cardiac phenotype and circadian patterns in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

C O'Mahony, PD Lambiase, SM Rahman… - Europace, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background The triggers of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) leading to sudden cardiac death in
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are ill defined. We sought to examine the …

Acute administration of vitamin C abrogates protection from ischemic preconditioning in rabbits

K Tsovolas, EK Iliodromitis, I Andreadou, A Zoga… - Pharmacological …, 2008 - Elsevier
Vitamin C is considered to be an antioxidant agent that is broadly used. Free radicals are
involved in the protective mechanism of preconditioning (PC), but some antioxidant …

Acute administration of vitamin E triggers preconditioning via KATP channels and cyclic-GMP without inhibiting lipid peroxidation

I Andreadou, EK Iliodromitis, K Tsovolas… - Free Radical Biology …, 2006 - Elsevier
Vitamin E (VitE) is considered an antioxidant agent. One or more brief periods of ischemia
(isc), followed by short reperfusion (rep), increase the tolerance of the heart to a subsequent …