The therapeutic efficacy of Atabrine in ventricular tachycardia has not yet been clearly demonstrated. In this case report, Atabrine stopped ventricular tachycardia and restored normal sinus rhythm following the fifth two-hourly oral dose of 0.30 Gm. Nausea and vomiting were the only toxic effects noted. Ventricular tachycardia, in this case, occurred as a complication of acute myocardial infar...

A 37-year-old man with a benign variant of scleroderma (CRST syndrome: calcinosis circumscripta, Raynaud's phenomenon, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia) presented with recurrent ventricular tachycardia. Preoperative electrophysiologic study suggested that the mechanism of tachycardia was an ectopic pacemaker focus in the right ventricle. Right ventricular dilatation, tricuspid insufficiency, n...

OBJECTIVE To study differences between repetitive monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (RMVT) of right ventricular origin, and ventricular tachycardia in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD). PATIENTS Consecutive groups with RMVT (n = 15) or ARVD (n = 12), comparable for age and function. METHODS Analysis of baseline, tachycardia, and signal averaged ECGs, clinical data, and rig...

T HE presence of ventricular tachycardia has been regarded as one of the major contraindications to the use of digitalis.'-8 Our clinical observations, however, have led us to use digitalis somewhat more freely in cardiac disease in general than is usually recommended.9-10 The four observations on three patients presented in this paper illustrate instances of the intensive use of digitalis in t...

Ventricular tachycardia like ventricular parasystole is rarely observed in the absence of cardiac disease (Massie and Walsh, 1960; Scherf and Bornemann, 1961), though several cases of functional ventricular tachycardia without demonstrable heart disease have been reported by Hair, Eagan, and Orgain (1962) and others. Parasystole consists of simultaneous activity of two independent impulse-formi...

4. Zipes DP, Jackman WM, Heger JJ, Chilson DA, Browne KF, Naccarelli GV, Rahilly GT Jr, Prystowsky EN: Clinical transvenous cardioversion of recurrent life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias: low energy synchronized cardioversion of ventricular tachycardia and termination of ventricular fibrillation in patients using a catheter electrode. Am Heart J 103: 789, 1982 5. Wellens HJJ, Lie KI, ...

BACKGROUND Clinical experience suggests that combinations of antiarrhythmic agents provide more effective control of ventricular tachyarrhythmias than does therapy with single agents. METHODS AND RESULTS Antiarrhythmic and electrophysiological effects of three class I antiarrhythmic agents, one from each subclass A, B, and C, were assessed in single use and in combination with amiodarone in p...

Since 1974, 24 young patients presenting with ventricular tachycardia and without clinical evidence of heart disease were evaluated and followed. Sixteen patients (67%) were symptomatic. Clinical episodes of ventricular tachycardia were sustained in 18, incessant in four, and nonsustained in two patients. The rate of tachycardia ranged from 130 to 300 beats/min (mean = 200 beats/min). Subtle ab...

The role of supraventricular extrasystoles in the initiation of ventricular arrhythmia was studied in 72 consecutive patients who developed primary ventricular fibrillation during the acute phase of myocardial infarction. In six patients (8%), a total of 12 episodes of ventricular fibrillation and 16 episodes of ventricular tachycardia were initiated by supraventricular extrasystoles. Ventricul...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of supraventricular pacing tachycardia on left ventricular function and myocardial structure in newborn, immature pigs and to determine whether immature pigs respond to supraventricular tachycardia differently from adults. BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that supraventricular tachycardia causes dilated cardiomyopathy in ad...