PMID- 6159832
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19810129
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 0003-9926 (Print)
IS  - 0003-9926 (Linking)
VI  - 140
IP  - 11
DP  - 1980 Nov
TI  - Ventricular premature contractions. Which should be treated?
PG  - 1423-6
AB  - The treatment of ventricular premature contractions (VPCs) is based on two 
      factors: bothersome symptoms from which the patient desires relief and the 
      association of ectopic ventricular beats with sudden cardiac death. The sudden 
      death risk related to ventricular ectopic beats is real, but appears to be a 
      function of the frequency or pattern in which they occur plus the presence of 
      underlying heart disease. A serious risk exists when frequent, multifocal, 
      successive, or R-on-T-type VPCs occur in a patient monitored late after a fresh 
      myocardial infarction, particularly if left ventricular failure is also present. 
      Current data have been used to formulate levels of risk for sudden cardiac death 
      on the basis of ventricular ectopic beats, which in turn provides a reasonable 
      basis for the treatment of asymptomatic ventricular ectopy.
FAU - Whiting, R B
AU  - Whiting RB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Arch Intern Med
JT  - Archives of internal medicine
JID - 0372440
RN  - 0 (Anti-Arrhythmia Agents)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/therapeutic use
MH  - Arrhythmias, Cardiac/*drug therapy/epidemiology
MH  - Cardiac Complexes, Premature/drug therapy
MH  - Death, Sudden/epidemiology
MH  - Heart Arrest/epidemiology
MH  - Heart Ventricles
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Risk
MH  - United States
RF  - 55
EDAT- 1980/11/01 00:00
MHDA- 1980/11/01 00:01
CRDT- 1980/11/01 00:00
PHST- 1980/11/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1980/11/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1980/11/01 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Intern Med. 1980 Nov;140(11):1423-6.