UNTIL recently approximately 30°4 of all patients entering hospital following a myocardial infarction died. This figure is remarkably consistent throughout the hospitals of the world. The majority of deaths occurred within the first few hours and up to 1 week following the infarction. The cause of death is not always clear but we can place it under the following headings: 1. Arrhythmias. 2. Myo...

Jaeggi and colleagues1 have added to the literature with their extensive assessment of 159 fetal tachyarrhythmia cases collected from 3 institutions over a 10-year period. However, before we comment on their study, it is worth reviewing some of the relevant issues for management of fetal arrhythmias. An estimated 0.4% to 0.6% of pregnancies have a fetal arrhythmia at some point during the pregn...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Arrhythmias in pregnancy has been increasing due to the aging pregnant women and psychosocial economic conditions developing countries. Some them are benign do not require special treatment while others will be needed order improve subjective feelings. Aim study was evaluate prevalence characteristics cardiac arrhythmia...

Holter system electrocardiograms were recorded for 617 patients who were treated at the Department of Cardiology, Tokai University Hospital. In cases of arrhythmia, ventricular premature contraction (VPC) was the most predominant, in 291 cases (69%) out of 423 with arrhythmia, followed by 59 (14%) with supraventricular premature contraction (SVPC), 23 (5.4%) with paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, ...

INTRODUCTION Left atrial catheter ablation is useful as symptomatic treatment in selected patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Evaluation requires measurement of arrhythmia-related symptoms. Many of the published protocols have drawbacks and have been used in AF only, with no possible comparison to other ablations that compete for the same resources. U22 is a published protocol that quantifi...

Systemic and coronary hemodynamic parameters were determined during an arrhythmia and immediately after a direct current transthoracic shock given in an attempt to convert the arrhythmia to a sinus mechanism. No anesthesia or drugs were administered between the two studies. 16 patients with atrial fibrillation converted to sinus rhythm and five did not. In two patients with atrial flutter and o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic yield of transtelephonic event monitors for identifying the reason for palpitations in patients with no structural heart disease. PATIENTS AND METHOD For 20 months we enrolled all patients reporting palpitations in whom heart disease had been ruled out by medical history, physical examination, ECG and transthoracic echocardiography. All patients underwent...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of percutaneous stellate ganglion block (SGB) for managing electrical storm (ES) is not well understood. OBJECTIVE To characterize the efficacy of SGB as a treatment for ES. METHODS We conducted literature searches using PubMed/Medline and Google Scholar, for mixed combinations of terms including "stellate ganglion block", *ganglion block (ade)", "sympathetic block (...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation with tissue ablation device through bipolar radiofrequency in conjunction with cardiac surgery has proven to be an effective method to treat this arrhythmia. OBJECTIVE Describe the initial experience of the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia in the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation using bipolar radiofrequency device in patients undergoing cardiac surgery...