Electrocardiographic changes after cardioversion of ventricular arrhythmias.

Electrocardiographic changes after cardioversion of ventricular arrhythmias.

To evaluate rhythm and QRS-T changes after cardioversion of induced ventricular arrhythmias, 56 patients underwent continuous three-lead and serial 12-lead electrocardiographic monitoring for 15 min after 77 cardioversions. Fifty patients were cardioverted externally and nine internally with an implanted automatic cardioverter/defibrillator. Initial energy for external cardioversion was 200 Wse...

Transvenous cardioversion for the management of recurrent ventricular arrhythmias.

The efficacy of transvenous cardioversion and defibrillation for treating life threatening spontaneous ventricular arrhythmias was assessed in a study of 17 patients in a cardiac care unit. Eleven had ventricular tachycardia, five had ventricular fibrillation, and one had both. Transvenous cardioversion successfully terminated tachyarrhythmias on 42 separate occasions in ten patients. Stable el...

Arrhythmias Related to Cardioversion.

Ventricular arrhythmias after left ventricular assist device.

Electrocardiographic Patterns of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy

pathology affecting multiple sites of the right ventricle. However the predictive value of this finding is not 100% accurate. Early in the disease of ARVD/C one may see a single form of VT. There has also been a report of multiple forms of VT seen in an idiopathic VT, but the diagnosis in these rare instances must be carefully scrutinized. Niroomand et al. (2002) performed electrophysiology stu...