Acute changes in infranodal conduction time following left ventriculography and sublingual nitroglycerin administration in man

American Heart Journal
R W PetersM M Scheinman

Abstract

During diagnostic cardiac catheterization for the evaluation of chest pain, His bundle electrograms were obtained in 32 male patients before and 2 to 5 minutes after each of two interventions known to acutely affect left ventricular volume and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (the injection of 40 to 60 cc of contrast medium during left ventriculography and the administration of 0.4 mg of sublingual nitroglycerin). Changes in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (18 +/- 6 vs 30 +/- 7 mm Hg, p less than 0.001 following ventriculography and 32 +/- 8 vs 19 +/- 8 mm Hg, p less than 0.005 following nitroglycerin administration) were accompanied by parallel alterations in HQ (48 +/- 8 vs 54 +/- 10 msec, p less than 0.005 following ventriculography and 57 +/- 10 vs 53 +/- msec, p less than 0.005 following nitroglycerin administration), but there were no significant changes in atrioventricular (AV) nodal conduction (AH). Significantly greater changes in HQ were seen in patients with triple-vessel coronary artery disease than in the remainder of the population, although there was clinical and/or ECG evidence of ischemia in only one patient. We conclude that factors other than progression of intrinsic conduction system disease m...Continue Reading

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