Electrocardiographic correlates of spontaneous termination of ventricular tachycardia in patients with coronary artery disease

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Background. In vitro studies have reported that beat-to-beat variance in tachycardia cycle length and in conduction and repolarization properties can result in spontaneous termination of reentrant arrhythmias. The purpose of this study was to define the ECG patterns associated with spontaneous termination of ventricular tachycardia in humans late after myocardial infarction. Methods and Results. The QRS durations, QT intervals, and cycle lengths were measured on a beat-to-beat basis during episodes of sustained and spontaneously terminating ventricular tachycardias (VT) induced at antiarrhythmic drug-free and drug-assessment electrophysiological studies. Twenty-six patients were studied. Four categories of inducible ventricular tachycardia were studied: inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia in an antiarrhythmic drug-free state, spontaneously terminating ventricular tachycardia in an antiarrhythmic drug-free state, sustained ventricular tachycardia on antiarrhythmic therapy, and spontaneously terminating ventricular tachycardia on antiarrhythmic therapy. The ECG patterns that were statistically related to spontaneous termination of ventricular tachycardia included impingement of the QTP interval on the tachycardia cycle length (P

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Duff, H. J., Mitchell, L. B., Gillis, A. M., Sheldon, R. S., Chudleigh, L., Cassidy, P., … Wyse, D. G. (1993). Electrocardiographic correlates of spontaneous termination of ventricular tachycardia in patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation, 88(3), 1054–1062. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.88.3.1054

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