Arrhythmias During Acute Pericarditis. A Prospective Study of 100 Consecutive Cases

Overview

Journal JAMA

Publisher American Medical Association

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1976 Jan 5

PMID 945999

Citations 24

Authors

D H Spodick

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Abstract

One hundred consecutive patients were examined to ascertain the incidence of clinically significant arrhythmias during acute pericarditis. Only seven arrhythmias, all atrial, occurred, and these only in patients with heart disease. It appears that the vulnerability of the sinus node to being engulfed by subepicardial extension of the inflammatory process is insufficient by itself to provoke arrhythmias in the absence of disease of the myocardium, valves, or coronary arteries.

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