BENIGN PAROXYSMAL VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA: REPORT OF A CASE
Authors: E. Grey Dimond, William L. Hayes
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Case Reports1 December 1960BENIGN PAROXYSMAL VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA: REPORT OF A CASEE. GREY DIMOND, M.D., WILLIAM L. HAYES, M.D.E. GREY DIMOND, M.D., WILLIAM L. HAYES, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-6-1255 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThat paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia may occur in the absence of underlying organic heart disease has been established by numerous individual case reports1-14 and studies of large groups of cases of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia.15-20 It is, however, a relatively uncommon disorder. In contrast to theominous prognosis of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia associated with organic heart disease,15, 20this arrythmia, occurring without underlying heart disease, is generally a benign disorder and the prognosis is good.12, 20The patients are usually well except during paroxysms, when they may have symptoms of palpitation,2, 5, 9, 10dizziness,5syncope,5, 12and sensations of pressure in...Bibliography1. WilsonWishartMacleodBarker FNSWAGPS: A clinical type of paroxysmal tachycardia of ventricular origin in which paroxysms are induced by exertion, Am. Heart J. 8: 155, 1932. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. Anderson MC: Paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, report of a case, Am. J. M. Sc. 181: 369, 1931. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. McMillanBellet TMS: Ventricular paroxysmal tachycardia: report of a case in a pregnant girl of sixteen years with an apparently normal heart, Am. Heart J. 7: 70, 1931. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. 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Grey Dimond, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Laboratory, University of Kansas Medical Center, Rainbow Boulevard at Thirty-ninth Street, Kansas City 12, Kansas. 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