Valor preditivo de variáveis clínicas e eletrofisiológicas em pacientes com cardiopatia chagásica crônica e taquicardia ventricular näo-sustentada / Predictive value of clinical and electrophysiological variables in patients with chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia
Arq. bras. cardiol
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75(1): 33-47, jul. 2000. tab
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in Portuguese, English
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Risk stratification of patients with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) and chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC).METHODS:
Seventy eight patients with CCC and NSVT were consecutively and prospectively studied. All patients underwent to 24-hour Holter monitoring, radioisotopic ventriculography, left ventricular angiography, and electrophysiologic study. With programmed ventricular stimulation.RESULTS:
Sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (SMVT) was induced in 25 patients (32 percent), NSVT in 20 (25.6 percent) and ventricular fibrillation in 4 (5.1 percent). In 29 patients (37.2 percent) no arrhythmia was inducible. During a 55.7-month-follow-up, 22 (28.2 percent) patients died, 16 due to sudden death, 2 due to nonsudden cardiac death and 4 due to noncardiac death. Logistic regression analysis showed that induction was the independent and main variable that predicted the occurrence of subsequent events and cardiac death (probability of 2.56 and 2.17, respectively). The Mantel-Haenszel chi-square test showed that survival probability was significantly lower in the inducible group than in the noninductible group. The percentage of patients free of events was significantly higher in the noninducible group.CONCLUSION:
Induction of SMVT during programmed ventricular stimulation was a predictor of arrhythmia occurrence cardiac death and general mortality in patients with CCC and NSVT
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Main subject:
Chagas Cardiomyopathy
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Tachycardia, Ventricular
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Arq. bras. cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
2000
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo/BR
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