Shocking convulsions: torsades de pointes masquerading as epileptic seizures in an ICD recipient

29 August 2026 (11:09 - 11:21)

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Doctor Dea Thomas

Suny Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn (United States of America)

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Overcoming severe thoracic deformity: successful extravascular ICD implantation in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy and ankylosing spondylitis

Mr J. He (Changsha, CN)

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When mitochondrial cytopathy drives cardiac disease: a Kearns–Sayre syndrome case

Doctor M. Filip (Iasi, RO)

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The boy who cried 'Wolff': pseudo–pre-excitation in cardiac amyloidosis presenting with ventricular tachycardia in a young adult filipino male

Doctor A. Andino (Metro Manila, PH)

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