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

From: Journal of Electrocardiology | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Chishaki, Hiroaki; Li, Fang-Jie; Takeshita, Akira; Chishaki, Akiko Suyama | Copyright information

Abstract: 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 ...

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