What question did this study set out to answer?

To describe an atypical form of gross cardiac arrhythmia simulating auricular fibrillation and identify its underlying electrophysiological origin.

October 9, 1915JAMA

An Unusual Type of Gross Cardiac Arrhythmia

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Population

1 patient with an unusual gross cardiac arrhythmia observed at Massachusetts General Hospital

Design

Case_report

Authors

PWPaul D. WhiteUniversity of the West of England

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Implication

Multifocal ventricular ectopy may mimic AF on ECG; this case leaves open questions of prevalence and differentiation criteria.

Key Points

To describe an atypical form of gross cardiac arrhythmia simulating auricular fibrillation and identify its underlying electrophysiological origin.
Serial electrocardiographic monitoring of a hospitalized patient presenting with recurrent gross pulse irregularity.
Analysis of time intervals and morphological characteristics of ventricular complexes and aberrant ectopic beats.
Electrocardiograms revealed gross irregularity arising from ectopic contractions originating across at least three distinct ventricular foci, intermixed with aberrant supraventricular beats.
Subsequent tracings demonstrated alternate presentations of ventricular bigeminy, characterized by ventricular premature contractions alternating with supraventricular complexes.

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Population

1 patient with an unusual gross cardiac arrhythmia observed at Massachusetts General Hospital

Highlights a rare electrocardiographic presentation of multifocal ventricular ectopy mimicking the gross irregularity typically seen in atrial fibrillation.

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Paul D. White (1915) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8c7dc5cd41235888d936c2 https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1915.02580150050016

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