The clinical characteristics of patients with an acute myocardial infarct complicated by ventricular tachyarrhythmias
Parkhomenko, A.N.; Potapkov, A.V.
Likars'ka Sprava 8: 18-21
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 1019-5297 PMID: 1475918 Document Number: 401652
Having studied 455 cases of documented ventricular fibrillations and ventricular tachycardias leading to circulatory arrest, the authors distinguished clinical factors of unfavourable prognosis of the disease at early and late ventricular tachyarrhythmias, their primary and secondary forms. The possible role is stressed of prolonged persistence of electrical instability of the myocardium in late primary tachyarrhythmias which also include arrhythmias of the 2nd myocardial infarction day. The necessity is substantiated of early electrophysiological examination in myocardial infarction complicated by circulatory arrest or during high risk of its development.