SIGNIFICANCE OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS INITIATED BY PROGRAMMED VENTRICULAR STIMULATION - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TYPE OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA INDUCED AND THE NUMBER OF PREMATURE STIMULI REQUIRED
SIGNIFICANCE OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS INITIATED BY PROGRAMMED VENTRICULAR STIMULATION - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TYPE OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA INDUCED AND THE NUMBER OF PREMATURE STIMULI REQUIRED
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.69.1.87
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
WELLENS, HJJ
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作者:
BRUGADA, P;GREEN, M;WELLENS, HJJ
An increasing number of premature ventricular stimuli are being used during programmed stimulation of the heart in the investigation of patients with documented or suspected ventricular arrhythmias. To analyze the significance of the different types of ventricular arrhythmias that are initiated, the effects of from 1 to 4 ventricular premature stimuli were evaluated in 52 patients without (non-VT group) and 50 patients with (prior-VT group) documented ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. More than half of the patients in the prior-VT group had coronary heart disease. In the majority of patients of the non-VT group the heart was normal. In 44 of the 50 patients in the prior-VT group the clinically documented ventricular arrhythmia was initiated by programmed ventricular stimulation of the heart. In 88% of these 44 patients, 1 or 2 ventricular premature beats were required to initiate the clinical arrhythmia. A ventricular arrhythmia could be initiated in 31 of the 52 patients in the non-VT group. The ventricular arrhythmias included nonsustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (2 patients), 6-25 complexes of sustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (24 patients) and ventricular fibrillation (5 patients). In 70% of patients in the non-VT group 3 or 4 ventricular premature beats were required to initiate the ventricular arrhythmia. Evidently, not only the number of extra stimuli required to initiate ventricular arrhythmias but also the type of venticular arrhythmia initiated differed between the 2 groups of patients. Nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation are nonspecific responses to aggressive stimulation protocols.