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Acceleration of the ventricular response during atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome after verapamil.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gulamhusein, Sajad S. |
| Copyright Year | 1982 |
| Abstract | We examined the electrophysiologic effects of verapamil in eight patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Verapamil shortened the antegrade effective refractory period of the accessory pathway in three patients and abbreviated the shortest cycle length with 1:1 conduction over the accessory pathway in two patients. More significantly, verapamil decreased the shortest RR interval between preexcited ventricular complexes during atrial fibrillation (279 +/- 20 msec vs 236 +/- 18 msec, mean +/- SEM; p less than 0.01). After verapamil, two patients required cardioversion for hemodynamic deterioration after acceleration of the ventricular response during atrial fibrillation. In the four patients with predominantly preexcited ventricular complexes during atrial fibrillation the ventricular rate accelerated after verapamil, whereas in patients with predominantly normal ventricular complexes, the average ventricular rate decreased or did not change after verapamil. Verapamil may result in significant acceleration of ventricular response during atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. The safety of verapamil in individual patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome should be established by electrophysiologic testing before its use. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/circulationaha/65/2/348.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/circulationaha/65/2/348.full.pdf?download=true |
| PubMed reference number | 7053894v1 |
| Volume Number | 65 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Journal | Circulation |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Accessory Atrioventricular Bundle (disorder) Atrial Fibrillation Heart Atrium Hemodynamics Parkinsonian Disorders Patients Short Ventricular Fibrillation Verapamil Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |