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PAROXYSMAL VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION IN THE ABSENCE OF OTHER DISEASE*
- THOMAS N. STERN, M.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Thomas N. Stern, M.D., 899 Madison Avenue, Memphis 3, Tennessee.
Excerpt
Ventricular fibrillation was first clinically demonstrated on a dying heart.1 Since that time it has been held to be a sign of grave prognostic significance. For many years it was described chiefly as an accidental finding demonstrated on an electrocardiogram at the time of death. However, scattered cases appeared in the literature in which the patient did not die immediately after onset of fibrillation. The series of Parkinson2 first demonstrated that ventricular fibrillation could be a cause for Adams-Stokes syndrome. In a recent review of Adams-Stokes syndrome caused by paroxysmal ventricular fibrillation,3 51 cases were found up until 1952. Average
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Acknowledgment
The author wishes to express thanks to Dr. Eugene Lepeschkin for his helpful comments.
Summario in Interlingua
Es presentate un breve revista de cinque casos de paroxysmal fibrillation ventricular in le absentia de altere morbos, que es trovate in le litteratura. Un sexte caso, in un juvene masculo negre, es presentate in detalio. Durante le intervallos inter le attaccos de fibrillation nulle anormalitates esseva trovate, excepte un grande unda U in le electrocardiogramma. Le patiente es mantenite con quinidina. Ille es asymptomatic depost cinque annos. Le mechanismo de fibrillation ventricular es discutite.
Article and Author Information
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↵* Received for publication April 3, 1956.
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From the Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, and the John Gaston Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
