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Serial production of controlled periods of temporary heart block used to unmask and assess latent ventricular automaticity during experimental acute myocardial ischemia.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  3711546     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This study examined the onset, time course of development and response to overdrive stimulation of ventricular tachycardia in 10 dogs that underwent a Harris two-stage ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Transient (12 +/- 3 minutes) complete atrioventricular (AV) block was produced 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 hours after onset of infarction through selective injection of physostigmine salicylate into the AV node artery. Seven of the 10 dogs had early transient arrhythmic episodes that occurred within 20 to 40 minutes after coronary occlusion but none of the dogs had any spontaneous ventricular tachycardia in the ensuing 2 hours. Two hours after left anterior descending coronary artery ligation, complete AV block unmasked in every dog a slow (37 +/- 9 beats/min) AV junctional rhythm readily suppressed by overdrive. Three hours after coronary ligation, AV block revealed a monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (106 +/- 10 beats/min) in 3 of the 10 dogs. Four and five hours after coronary ligation, five and eight dogs, respectively, had ventricular tachycardia during AV block and in three the tachycardia was polymorphic. The two remaining dogs did not develop ventricular tachycardia during the 24 hours of observation. Ventricular tachycardia always began abruptly, first with brief and then longer bursts. Soon after onset the rate of tachycardia began to increase to reach a plateau 2 to 3 hours later at frequencies 21 +/- 9% greater than the initial tachycardia rate. Concomitant with this increase in rate there was a steady decline of overdrive suppressibility and during the plateau phase there was little or no overdrive suppression.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Authors:
L V Rosenshtraukh; F Urthaler; E P Anjukhovsky; G G Beloshapko; G R Hageman; T N James
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of the American College of Cardiology     Volume:  8     ISSN:  0735-1097     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.     Publication Date:  1986 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1986-07-24     Completed Date:  1986-07-24     Revised Date:  2007-11-14    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8301365     Medline TA:  J Am Coll Cardiol     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  95A-103A     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Atrioventricular Node / physiopathology
Coronary Disease / physiopathology*
Dogs
Female
Heart Block / physiopathology*
Heart Ventricles / physiopathology
Male
Reaction Time
Tachycardia / physiopathology
Time Factors
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
5P50 HL17667-11/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS; HL 31536/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS

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