Table 3.

Patients with Arrhythmias and Arrhythmia Episodes

	Control	DEX	P-value
Tachy-arrhythmias, n= patients (%)	10 (50)	2 (6)	0.001
Ventricular Tachycardia *	6
Atrial Ectopic Tachycardia *	3
Junctional Ectopic Tachycardia *	2
Re-entrant SVT *	1	2
Atrial Bigeminy *	1
Junctional Accelerated Rhythm *		1
Brady-arrhythmias, n= patients (%)	2 (10)	2 (6)	0.85
Complete AV Block *	1	2
SA Node Dysfunction *	1

^*Number of arrhythmia episodes

AV: atrioventricular; SA: sinoatrial node; SVT: supraventricular tachycardia