May 1, 1983European Heart Journal

Incidence and prognostic significance of ventricular arrhythmias in individuals without detectable heart disease

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Population

170 individuals aged 18-70 years without identifiable cardiovascular disease.

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

mean 4.6 years (range: 23-91 months)

Authors

KBKlaus-Peter BethgeUniversity of Freiburg DBD BethgeUniversity of Lübeck GMG. MeinersMedizinische Hochschule Hannover

Discussion

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Implication

May reassure against routine treatment of frequent VES in normal hearts; leaves open need for larger prospective studies.

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Population

170 individuals (117 males, 53 females) aged 18-70 years (mean age 42) without identifiable cardiovascular disease (104 clinically excluded, 66 excluded via normal angiograms, ventriculography, and hemodynamics).

Outcome

Incidence of ventricular arrhythmias on 24-hour continuous ambulatory electrocardiography and survival/sudden cardiac death over follow-up.hard clinical

Frequent and complex ventricular extrasystoles can occur in individuals without structural heart disease and do not appear to indicate a poor prognosis for sudden cardiac death.

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Bethge et al. (1983) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a823b8f7a56cf6465ffb13f https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a061471

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Incidence and prognostic significance of ventricular arrhythmias in individuals without detectable heart disease

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Incidence and prognostic significance of ventricular arrhythmias in individuals without detectable heart disease

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Structured PICO

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