Importance of electrocardiographic markers in predicting cardiac events in children.
ECG is a common diagnostic tool in medical practice. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a rare but devastating event. The most common cause of SCD in the young is a primary arrhythmic event, which is often produced by malignant ventricular arrhythmia. Several electrocardiographic markers for ventricular repolarization and depolarization have been proposed to predict this arrhythmic risk and SCD in children. Although many of these parameters can easily be used in clinical practice, some of them need specific techniques for interpretation. In this review, we summarized the current knowledge regarding the clinical importance and the ability of these ECG parameters to predict adverse cardiac events in the pediatric population.
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children sudden cardiac death arrhythmia repolarization depolarization electrocardiography