PMID- 15286934
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20041222
LR  - 20190906
IS  - 0022-0736 (Print)
IS  - 0022-0736 (Linking)
VI  - 37
IP  - 3
DP  - 2004 Jul
TI  - Different features of ventricular arrhythmias and the RR-interval dynamics in 
      atrial fibrillation related to the patient's clinical characteristics: an 
      analysis using RR-interval plotting.
PG  - 207-17
AB  - The clinical features of ventricular arrhythmia and RR-interval dynamics in 
      AF-patients remain unresolved. We successively plotted points on an X-Y plain as 
      (X, Y) = (RRn, RRn + 1) from the consecutive RR-intervals of Holter ECGs. Eighty 
      of 175 AF-patients were thus diagnosed to have ventricular arrhythmia based on 
      the different plotting patterns between ventricular premature contractions (VPCs) 
      and aberrations. Different characteristics of the RR-interval dynamics before 
      VPCs were observed such as fixed or variable coupling, and a regular or irregular 
      RR-interval sequence. Malignant arrhythmias occurred more frequently in 
      AF-patients with variable coupling VPCs and/or an irregular RR-interval sequence 
      before VPCs than in those with the fixed coupling VPCs and/or the regular 
      RR-interval sequence before VPCs. The RR-interval plotting method enabled us to 
      distinguish different types of VPCs which were related to the clinical 
      characteristics of the AF-patients.
FAU - Chishaki, Akiko Suyama
AU  - Chishaki AS
AD  - School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-city, 
      Fukuoka, Japan. aki@shs.kyushu-u.ac.jp
FAU - Li, Fang-Jie
AU  - Li FJ
FAU - Takeshita, Akira
AU  - Takeshita A
FAU - Chishaki, Hiroaki
AU  - Chishaki H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Electrocardiol
JT  - Journal of electrocardiology
JID - 0153605
SB  - IM
MH  - Arrhythmias, Cardiac/diagnosis/*physiopathology
MH  - Atrial Fibrillation/*physiopathology
MH  - Echocardiography
MH  - *Electrocardiography, Ambulatory
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Heart Conduction System/physiopathology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Ventricular Premature Complexes/*physiopathology
EDAT- 2004/08/03 05:00
MHDA- 2004/12/23 09:00
CRDT- 2004/08/03 05:00
PHST- 2004/08/03 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/12/23 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/08/03 05:00 [entrez]
AID - S0022073604000457 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2004.04.007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Electrocardiol. 2004 Jul;37(3):207-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2004.04.007.