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[Incessant ventricular tachycardia as a manifestation of myocardial ischemia]. 2002

Javier Sanz Salvo, and Fernando Arribas, and María López Gil, and Regina Dalmau, and Julio García Tejada, and Santiago Jiménez Valero
Servicio de Cardiología, Unidad de Arritmias, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain. rbarrialesv@inicia.es

We describe four patients with incessant ventricular tachycardia after the acute phase of a myocardial infarction. Two of them had a slow heart rate, and myocardial revascularization resolved the arrhythmia after ischemia was demonstrated. In the other two cases, very fast tachycardias were interrupted by means of intravenous verapamil and clinical stabilization was achieved after failure of amiodarone and lidocaine. In one of them, revascularization prevented new recurrences, but it was not feasible in the second patient, who developed new arrhythmias. The possible mechanisms of these tachycardias and their clinical and therapeutic implications are discussed.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D017180 Tachycardia, Ventricular An abnormally rapid ventricular rhythm usually in excess of 150 beats per minute. It is generated within the ventricle below the BUNDLE OF HIS, either as autonomic impulse formation or reentrant impulse conduction. Depending on the etiology, onset of ventricular tachycardia can be paroxysmal (sudden) or nonparoxysmal, its wide QRS complexes can be uniform or polymorphic, and the ventricular beating may be independent of the atrial beating (AV dissociation). Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia,Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia,Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia,Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias,Ventricular Tachycardia,Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardias,Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardias,Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias,Supraventricular Tachycardia, Paroxysmal,Tachyarrhythmia, Ventricular,Tachycardia, Idiopathic Ventricular,Tachycardia, Nonsustained Ventricular,Tachycardia, Paroxysmal Supraventricular,Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia,Ventricular Tachycardia, Idiopathic,Ventricular Tachycardia, Nonsustained,Ventricular Tachycardias
D017202 Myocardial Ischemia A disorder of cardiac function caused by insufficient blood flow to the muscle tissue of the heart. The decreased blood flow may be due to narrowing of the coronary arteries (CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE), to obstruction by a thrombus (CORONARY THROMBOSIS), or less commonly, to diffuse narrowing of arterioles and other small vessels within the heart. Severe interruption of the blood supply to the myocardial tissue may result in necrosis of cardiac muscle (MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION). Heart Disease, Ischemic,Ischemia, Myocardial,Ischemic Heart Disease,Disease, Ischemic Heart,Diseases, Ischemic Heart,Heart Diseases, Ischemic,Ischemias, Myocardial,Ischemic Heart Diseases,Myocardial Ischemias

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