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2729054

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-7-5
pubmed:abstractText
Here we report on a study of 181 episodes of spontaneous atrial flutter (AF) (mean atrial cycle length 250 +/- 32 msec) treated by transesophageal atrial pacing (TAP) in 138 patients (92 men and 46 women; mean age 59.5 +/- 12.6 years). TAP was effective in 163 episodes (90%); sinus rhythm resumption was immediate in 36 (19.9%) and followed a short period of atrial fibrillation in 64 (35.3%); in 63 episodes (34.8%) a stable atrial fibrillation was obtained. TAP was unsuccessful in 18 cases (10%). All the patients tolerated the procedure well. A statistical elaboration with the Fisher exact test did not evidence a correlation between efficacy and age, sex, atrial cycle length, or underlying heart disease but showed a significant correlation between efficacy and AF duration of less than 1 day (p less than 0.05) and absence of antiarrhythmic pharmacologic pretreatment (p less than 0.01). These data strongly support the immediate first-choice use of TAP in AF therapy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0002-8703
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
117
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1241-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-2-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Transesophageal atrial pacing: a first-choice technique in atrial flutter therapy.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Cardiology, S. Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article