Early ventricular fibrillation in patients with acute myocardial infarction: correlation with coronary angiographic findings
| Autor: | Costas V. Kourouclis, John Barbetseas, Pavlos Toutouzas, Athanassios Antonopoulos, Panaghiotis Petropoulakis, Fotis Georgiakodis, Nicholas Aspiotis, Michael Kyriakidis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
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| Zdroj: | European Heart Journal. 14:364-368 |
| ISSN: | 1522-9645 0195-668X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/eurheartj/14.3.364 |
| Popis: | To define coronary angiographic characteristics of patients experiencing early primary ventricular fibrillation (VF) in the acute phase of myocardial infarction we studied 266 consecutive patients without clinical evidence of heart failure. Twenty-six patients (group 1) experienced early (< 12 h from the onset of symptoms of myocardial infarction) primary VF whereas 240 patients (group 2) with the same clinical characteristics served as an appropriately matched cohort. All patients were catheterized before or soon after hospital discharge (1 to 8 weeks after the acute event). There was no significant difference in left ventricular ejection fraction between the two groups of patients (39.6±6% vs 36.9±8%, P = ns). Patients with early VF had a significantly greater number of diseased vessels than those without VF (3.38±1.05 vs 2.03±1.25. P |
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