title: Postoperative arrhythmias and risk factors after open heart surgery.
abstract: Cardiac arrhythmias were recorded during 24 hours in 40 consecutive patients requiring open-heart surgery, using continuous Holter monitoring. Most patients developed both supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. Complex ventricular arrhythmias were detected in 31 patients (78%) and 2 patients suffered an immediate postoperative myocardial infarction. The following risk factors were considered: age, sex, type of heart disease, preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction, cardiopulmonary bypass and aortic clamping duration, length of anesthesia, dopamine administration, and maximal level of CK and CK-MB. Only dopamine administration, even in low renal dose, was associated with the number and severity of ventricular arrhythmias.
authors.affiliation: Departement of Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chiolero
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borgeat
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004298:Dopamine / Q000009:adverse effects; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine