Pilsicainide challenge test and inducibility of ventricular fibrillation by programmed electrical stimulation

Clinical significance of ventricular fibrillation-flutter induced by ventricular programmed stimulation.

Two hundred twenty-four patients underwent ventricular programmed stimulation (VPS) without prior documentation of the clinical occurrence of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation-flutter (VF). Indications for VPS were: palpitations or nonsustained VT during ambulatory monitoring (85 patients), syncope or presyncope (137 patients), and a family history of sudden dea...

Effects of valsartan on ventricular arrhythmia induced by programmed electrical stimulation in rats with myocardial infarction

The impact of angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) on electrical remodelling after myocardial infarction (MI) remains unclear. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of valsartan on incidence of ventricular arrhythmia induced by programmed electrical stimulation (PES) and potential link to changes of myocardial connexins (Cx) 43 expression and distribution in MI rats. Fi...

Programmed ventricular stimulation: not dead.

Usefulness of nonlinear analysis of ECG signals for prediction of inducibility of sustained ventricular tachycardia by programmed ventricular stimulation in patients with complex spontaneous ventricular arrhythmias.

INTRODUCTION The aim of our study was to assess the effectiveness of the nonlinear analysis (NLA) of ECG in predicting the results of invasive electrophysiologic study (EPS) in patients with ventricular arrhythmias. METHODS We evaluated 25 patients with history of cardiac arrest, syncope, sustained, or nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (VT). All patients underwent electrophysiologic study ...

Ventricular arrhythmia induced by sodium channel blocker in patients with Brugada syndrome.

OBJECTIVES We administered pilsicainide chloride, a class Ic pure sodium channel blocker, to patients with Brugada syndrome (BS) and evaluated the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) and T-wave alternans (TWA). BACKGROUND Ventricular arrhythmia and TWA are sometimes induced by a sodium channel blocker challenge test in BS patients, but the significance of the induced VA and TWA is not k...