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3407600

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-9-22
pubmed:abstractText
Paroxysmal atrial tachycardia is a familiar arrhythmia that has been studied extensively for the past decade using intracardiac recording and programmed electrical stimulation. These studies have thoroughly documented the mechanisms of this arrhythmia and its associated atrioventricular conduction abnormalities, but little is known about the spontaneous clinical behavior of this arrhythmia. A group of 34 patients with paroxysmal atrial tachycardia were studied using telephone transmission of the electrocardiogram to document recurrent tachycardia. When antiarrhythmic therapy was withdrawn, median time to the first recurrence of tachycardia was 19 days, mean heart rate during spontaneous tachycardia was 203.5 +/- 34.9 beats/min, and the median duration of an attack was 20 minutes. In a group of patients who were followed while many consecutive attacks were documented, the time intervals between attacks were found to be uncorrelated and to fit an exponential probability distribution (i.e., the occurrence of paroxysmal atrial tachycardia behaved like a Poisson process). Paroxysmal atrial tachycardia does not occur in a chaotic and unpredictable fashion; it is an event that occurs according to common probability models.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0002-9149
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
62
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3D-9D
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical behavior of paroxysmal atrial tachycardia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.