Psychologic Stress and Threshold for Repetitive Ventricular Response

23 November 1973

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 182 (4114) , 834-836
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.182.4114.834

Abstract

A psychologically stressful environment reduced the threshold of the dog's ventricle for repetitive response. Elicitation of such a response indicates the presence of electrical instability and a predisposition to ventricular fibrillation, the mechanism of sudden death.

Keywords

STRESSFUL
VENTRICULAR
THRESHOLD
REPETITIVE
PREDISPOSITION
FIBRILLATION
ELECTRICAL
DOG'S
DEATH
INSTABILITY

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Circulation, 1971
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VULNERABILITY OF THE DOG HEART TO VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHRONIC ISCHEMIA AND THREE MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION PROCEDURES
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