Ventricular Arrhythmias in Congestive Cardiomyopathy
- 11 August 1983
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 309 (6) , 377-378
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198308113090614
Abstract
To the Editor: In their article on dilated cardiomyopathy of the adult, Johnson and Palacios review the pathophysiologic features and the causes of this poorly understood heart disease, emphasizing that "[n]o systematic study of ventricular arrhythmias by means of. . . ambulatory recordings has been conducted" (Oct. 21 and Oct. 28 issues).1 In congestive cardiomyopathy cardiac arrhythmias are frequent and severe (58 per cent2 to 73 per cent3 on standard electrocardiograms); they may coexist with heart failure and be the cause of cardiac arrest.Recent studies4 suggest that the occurrence of frequent episodes of repetitive ventricular ectopic beats (couplets) and . . .Keywords
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