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Historical texts suggest that ventricular extrasystoles in isolation do not indicate an impaired heart or worsen the prognosis of existing morbid conditions.
A historical reflection noting that isolated ventricular extrasystoles in healthy subjects have long been considered benign.
Many years ago my father gave me his copy of A Textbook of the Practice of Medicine, which was edited in 1937 by Frederick Price of the National Heart Hospital in London. Price wrote:The question of prognosis of extra-systoles is of some consequence....Apart from rare exceptions..., when extra-systoles are considered by themselves — that is, without reference to the conditions with which they may be associated — there is so far no evidence for supposing that they are either indicative of an impaired heart, or that they add to the gravity of any existing morbid condition....The prognosis, therefore, . . .
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Jeremy N. Ruskin (1985) conducted an editorial in Ventricular Extrasystoles. Historical texts suggest that ventricular extrasystoles in isolation do not indicate an impaired heart or worsen the prognosis of existing morbid conditions.
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