| Application of a frequency definition of ventricular proarrhythmia. | |
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PMID: 3812259 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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To differentiate spontaneous variability from proarrhythmia in patients with benign or potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias, 495 patients with 2 or more Holter tracings during placebo therapy were evaluated. The Holter session with the highest frequency of ventricular premature complexes (VPCs) and ventricular tachycardia was compared with the first placebo recording. Patients were segregated by their baseline frequency of VPCs. The percent of patients taking placebo in this trial who had the same increase in VPC frequency as has been ascribed to those with proarrhythmia varied from 0 of 470 patients with a baseline frequency of ventricular arrhythmia of 10 to 50 VPCs/hour, 3 of 44 (7%) with 51 to 100 VPCs/hour, 1 of 139 (0.7%) with 101 to 300 VPCs/hour and 1 of 265 (0.04%) with more than 300 VPCs/hour. Overall, 5 of 496 (1%) patients would have been classified as having proarrhythmia using the algorithm although only placebo was given. A 10-fold or greater increase in ventricular tachycardia beats in patients taking placebo occurred in 9 of 274 patients (3%). Thus, a simple algorithm to define proarrhythmia in patients with mixed cardiac disease and chronic ventricular arrhythmias can be defined and differentiated from spontaneous variability. This arbitrary algorithm defines proarrhythmia as an increase of more than 3 times when baseline VPC frequency is more than 100 VPCs/hour and more than 10 times when that frequency is less than 100 VPCs/hour with a false-positive rate of only 1%. |
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Authors:
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J Morganroth; M Borland; G Chao |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The American journal of cardiology Volume: 59 ISSN: 0002-9149 ISO Abbreviation: Am. J. Cardiol. Publication Date: 1987 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1987-02-25 Completed Date: 1987-02-25 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0207277 Medline TA: Am J Cardiol Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 97-9 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
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Algorithms Arrhythmias, Cardiac / physiopathology* Electrocardiography Heart Ventricles Humans Monitoring, Physiologic Placebos Retrospective Studies |
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0/Placebos |
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