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Programmed stimulation and signal-averaged electrocardiography were performed in 43 consecutive patients with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) after healing of inferior (29 patients) or anterior wall (14 patients) acute myocardial infarction. Twenty-two patients had inducible sustained VT. Patients with inferior infarction and inducible sustained VT had significantly longer filtered QRS durations (125 +/- 19 vs 112 +/- 15 ms, p less than 0.01) and significantly lower voltage in the last 40 ms of the filtered QRS complex (19 +/- 5 vs 30 +/- 14 microV, p less than 0.05) than those without inducible sustained VT. In contrast, the signal-averaged electrocardiographic measurements in patients with anterior infarction and inducible sustained VT did not differ significantly from those without inducible sustained VT. The results of these studies were compared with those of 2 control groups: 45 patients without ventricular arrhythmias after myocardial infarction and 95 patients with spontaneous and inducible sustained VT after myocardial infarction. The signal-averaged electrocardiographic measurements in patients with spontaneous nonsustained VT after inferior infarction were intermediate between the control group without arrhythmias and the control group with sustained VT. The signal-averaged electrocardiograms in patients with nonsustained VT after anterior infarction were not significantly different from those in patients without ventricular arrhythmias. The study shows that the site of infarction influences the signal-averaged electrocardiogram in patients with VT after myocardial infarction. The signal-averaged electrocardiogram may be useful in identifying patients with nonsustained VT after a remote inferior myocardial infarction who have inducible sustained VT.
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