Table 2. Ventricular arrhythmia in 80 patients.
Finding | Number |
Baseline ambulatory ECG | |
- Ventricular premature beats | 73 (91%) |
- Ventricular premature complexes >10/h | 28 (35%) |
- Ventricular couplets | 29 (36%) |
- Bigeminy or trigeminy, or both | 24 (30%) |
- Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia | 9 (11%) |
Ventricular tachycardia events | |
- Any ventricular tachycardia event* | 6 (8%) |
- Sustained ventricular tachycardia | 4 (5%) |
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation | 4 (5%) |
- Sudden cardiac death | 3 (4%) |
- Ventricular fibrillation | 2 (3%) |
- Arrhythmogenic syncope | 1 (1%) |
- Survived resuscitation | 1 (1%) |
* Five patients had >1 ventricular event.