title: [Cardiac arrhythmia during pneumatic dilatation of achalasia of the esophagus (author's transl)].
abstract: ECG was recorded in 38 patients with achalasia of the esophagus before, during and after pneumatic dilatation. During the dilatation both marked increases as well as decreases of heart frequency were observed. The mean values of all patients remained virtually unchanged. The most frequent type of arrhythmia were ventricular extrasystolies (16 patients), whereas supraventricular extrasystolies (4 patients), second degree-av-block (2 patients) and av-dissociation (1 patient) occured infrequently. In none of our patients arrhythmia was critical, even in a patient with preexisting cardiac insufficiency. Thus, patients with achalasia of the esophagus are not endangered to a major degree by cardiac arrhythmia during pneumatic dilatation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D005117:Cardiac Complexes, Premature / Q000209:etiology; D004106:Dilatation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004931:Esophageal Achalasia / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006327:Heart Block / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Herzrhythmusstörungen bei der Dehnungsbehandlung der Achalasie des Osophagus.