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Outcomes of empiric antiarrhythmic drug therapy for ventricular tachyarrhythmias: a comparison of amiodarone and sotalol

The aim of this study is to review the long-term outcomes of a series of patients with ventricular tachyarrhythmias who commenced empiric treatment with either amiodarone or sotalol in the period before electrophysiologic studies were used routinely at our institution. We compared these two class III dru...

Chronic amiodarone use decreases implantable cardioverter defibrillator shock efficacy

To evaluate the effect of amiodarone on implantable cardioverter defibrillator efficacy, we compared first shock conversion rates for ventricular fibrillation in 113 patients who received amiodarone to those in 641 patients who did not receive the drug. All patients received a CPI VENTAK P2 implantable c...

Outpatient vs inpatient pacemaker implants, thresholds and complications

Since new development of active and passive fixation electrodes with low dislodgement rates, we started ambulatory pacemaker implantation. Over a period of 19 months 124 patients were treated, 79 of them were treated as outpatients. We selected for the inpatient group, patients who were already in the in...

Effects of perfusion of the infarct-related artery on risk markers of life-threatening arrhytmias in patients with prior myocardial infarction

Programmed electrical stimulation (PES), angiographic studies, Holter recording, 12-lead ECG and signal averaged ECG (SAECG, n=63) were performed in 109 consecutive patients with a prior Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI). Sixty-five patients (59 por cento) had TMI-class ) or 1 antegrade perfusion without...

A single procedure effectively treats concurrent atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia and AV node reentry tachycardia

We report our experience regarding definitive treatment for concurrent atrioventricular reciprocating and AV node reentry tachycardia in 184 consecutive patients undergoing accessory connection ablation. 18 patients also had inducible sustained AV node reentry tachycardia. Sixteen out of 18 patients unde...

Estudo comparativo das açöes anti-arrítmicas da cibenzolina e da difenilhidantoina sódica em arritmias ventriculares digitálico-induzidas
Comparative study of cibenzoline and diphenyhydantoin antiarrhithmic actions in digitalis-induced ventricular arrhythmias

A cibenzolina , uma nova droga anti-arrítmica, foi estudada em cäes após a induçäo de arritmias ventriculares experimentais digitálico-induzidas. A difenilhidantoina sódica foi utilizada como droga para comparaçäo. Sessenta cäes adultos saudáveis foram anestesiados com thiopental sódico e man...