PMID: 2486630Dec 1, 1989Paper

Correlation of various types of perfusion defects with supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Journal of cardiology
Y DoiT Ozawa

Abstract

To ascertain the relationship between the types of myocardial perfusion defects and supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), 26 patients were studied with dipyridamole-loading thallium-201 scintigraphy and the results were correlated with 24-hour ambulatory ECG, echocardiograms and hemodynamic data. Myocardial perfusion defects were detected in 10 of the 26 patients (38%); three with large defects (LD) and seven with multiple small defects (SD). The patients with defects had greater degree of asymmetric septal hypertrophy (1.82 +/- 0.49 vs 1.27 +/- 0.38, p less than 0.01) and lower cardiac indices (2.35 +/- 0.31 vs 2.70 +/- 0.43, p less than 0.05) than did the patients without defects. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAf) and/or paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) were observed in six of the 10 patients with defects (60%) and in four of the 16 patients without defects (25%). Ventricular tachycardia (VT) was identified in six of the 10 patients with defects (60%) but in only three of the 16 patients without defects (19%) (p less than 0.05). Among 10 patients with defects, PAf and/or PSVT were present in six of the seven patients with SD, but not in any of the patients wit...Continue Reading

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