Why the study?
Ventricular extrasystole is a common childhood rhythm disorder usually accompanied by normal cardiac function, but its clinical course in structurally normal hearts needed evaluation.
Population
226 children with isolated ventricular extrasystole and no structural heart disease
Design
Single-center retrospective study
Follow-up
Mean 8.7 ± 3.2 years
Authors
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Supports benign long-term course without cardiomyopathy; leaves open prospective studies to refine monitoring in pediatric ventricular extrasystole.
Isolated ventricular extrasystole in children without structural heart disease has a benign prognosis with high rates of spontaneous regression and no progression to cardiomyopathy.
Uysal et al. (2023) studied this question.
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