Sudden Cardiac Death in Schizophrenia

Abstract

Sudden death (SD) is a rapidly occurring, unexpected nonviolent death against the background of apparent health from a latent or atypical chronic or sudden acute disease [1]. In this case, most often there is death from cardiac arrest, that is, the so-called sudden cardiac death (SCD), caused by severe arrhythmias due to electrical instability of the myocardium [1, 2]. The predictor of these disorders is a significant elongation of the electrical systole of the ventricles of the heart – the QT interval on the electrocardiogram