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. 1984 Aug;74(2):377–392. doi: 10.1172/JCI111433

Localized reentry. Mechanism of induced sustained ventricular tachycardia in canine model of recent myocardial infarction.

H Garan, J N Ruskin
PMCID: PMC370488  PMID: 6746899

Abstract

This study was undertaken to investigate the mechanism underlying sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) in late experimental canine myocardial infarction. The hypothesis that sustained and "organized" continuous electrical activity (CEA) displaying a reproducible pattern with recurrent components recorded by bipolar endocardial, intramural, or epicardial electrodes in 10 animals during electrically induced sustained monomorphic VT represented reentrant excitation in an anatomically small area of the ventricle, was evaluated in the light of the following observations: Organized CEA always preceded the first monomorphic ventricular complex (QRS) of VT as well as the discrete local electrograms from closely surrounding sites during the initiation of VT. The site of organized CEA corresponded to the site of origin of sustained VT determined by iso-chronous contour map analysis of activation sequence. Ventricular pacing at rates more rapid than that of VT failed to terminate VT despite ventricular capture unless it transformed CEA into discrete local electrograms. VT could be terminated in three animals, with a single, critically timed premature stimulus delivered at a critically located focus close to the site of CEA, which would result in local capture and interrupted CEA. In six animals, surgical ablation of the site of organized CEA effectively prevented the reinitiation of sustained VT by programmed cardiac stimulation. These data showed that organized CEA and sustained VT were closely associated phenomena and suggested that organized CEA probably represented an important component of the tachycardia circuit.

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