We report a case of a 62-year-old Chinese man with typical triple-vessel lesions and apical left ventricular aneurysm accompanied with ventricular tachycardia. Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) grafting was performed in combination with epicardial unipolar radiofrequency ablation and linear closure of left ventricular aneurysm. The patient recovered well without postoperative complication...

Since the introduction of our local manufacturing of terfenadine, we have observed and expressed our concern about a small but increasing number of serious ventricular arrhythmias associated with the use of this non sedating antihistamine. In January 1997 a case of torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia was detected in a previously healthy woman taking terfenadine with erythromycin. El...

• It was reported recently that cardiac arrhythmia induced in cyclopropane anesthetized dogs by infusion of epinephrine could be converted to normal sinus rhythm by vagal stimulation. The termination of multifocal ventricular tachycardia is interesting because it is not readily apparent how vagal influence, presumably limited to the A-V node or upper bundle of His, alters arrhythmia predominant...

Noninvasive magnetic stimulation has been widely used in autonomic disorders in the past few decades, but few studies has been done in cardiac diseases. Recently, studies showed that low-frequency electromagnetic field (LF-EMF) might suppress atrial fibrillation by mediating the cardiac autonomic nervous system. In the present study, the effect of LF-EMF stimulation of left stellate ganglion (L...

1. This study examined the effect of an acute injection of contrast medium on generation of arrhythmias in diseased hearts in man.2. Subjects were 100 patients in sinus rhythm undergoing cardiac catheterization in whom good quality echocardiograms could be obtained. The subjects comprised 78 males and 22 females aged 37-83 years.3. Arrhythmia induced by left ventricular angiography ranged from ...

Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia is an uncommon cardiac arrhythmia and reports of only 50 cases have hitherto been published. Levy and Lewis (1911) were the first to notice this arrhythmia during their experimental work on cats, while Schwensen (1922) reported the first case of bidirectional ventricular tachycardia in man. Since then there has been general agreement that this arrhythmia ha...

Double ventricular response is a rare arrhythmia that results from simultaneous antegrade conduction over the fast and slow pathways of AV node. Double ventricular responses may lead to arrhythmia-related cardiomyopathy. As far as we know, there is not any reported reversible cardiomyopathy development that resulted from double ventricular responses to one atrial impulse after slow pathway abla...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the prognostic significance of ventricular arrhythmia on the ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) after repair of tetralogy of Fallot. BACKGROUND Ventricular arrhythmia is common after repair of tetralogy of Fallot and has been proposed as the basis for late sudden death. The prognostic significance of ventricular arrhythmia on ambulatory ECG and t...

Background: Study the correlation between the left ventricular end diastolic volume (LVEDV), ejection fraction (EF) and the development of arrhythmia. Patients and methods: Two hundreds patients with documented acute coronary syndrome and myocardial infection with dysrhythmia documented by ECG and holter monitoring assessed at the cardiac department at Baghdad teaching hospital over the period ...