Aim of this website:

To bring together reseachers all over the world who are interested in the prevention of  out-of-hospital death from acute myocardial infarction complicated by primary ventricular fibrillation (PVF).

Projected to 2030 ischemic heart disease will remain worldwide the most frequent cause of death.

Projected to 2030 the number of deaths  from PVF all over the world will be higher than the number of deaths from road traffic accidents or the number of deaths from lung/trachea cancer

More than 2/3 of all fatal PVF's occur after more than 30 minutes of warning symptoms of acute myocardial infarction and are therefore avoidable in a modern world.

Latest News:

28.08.2009:

Authors who want to collaborate online on  the scientific content of an overview text about primary ventricular fibrillation are welcome on our PVFwiki

07.08.2009 »

Start of this Web site which has to grow in the coming months by feedback of interested researchers. A Wiki format on this webside will be available soon to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly updates scientific data on primary ventricular fibrillation. At this moment visitors can collaborate on the wikipedia article "primary ventricular fibrillation"

17.06.2009 »

Peter Gheeraert presented his PhD thesis:

"Ventricular Fibrillation during Acute Myocardial Infarction: from Patient and Infarction Characteristics to Risk Factors and Risk Estimates" 

>Summary and table of contents:  click here

>Full text (PDF, 1.7 MB) :  click here

>Find thesis presentation slides:

               part 1 (PDF 1.2 MB)

               part 2 (PDF 1.2 MB)

               part 3 (PDF 1.2 MB)

Most important slide of the thesis:

Suggestions for further creation of this interactive site are welcome to E-mail:

peter.gheeraert@UZgent.be