title: [Ventricular late potentials in patients with cardiomyopathies in relation to electrophysiologic and myocardial biopsy findings].
abstract: With the noninvasive registration of late ventricular potentials there is the possibility to obtain statements about a regionally delayed excitation of ventricular parts which may refer to an increased inclination to ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Late ventricular potentials in patients with suspicion of primary diseases of the myocardium more frequently appeared both in the case of inducible non-sustained or sustained ventricular tachycardias and in the presence of simultaneous fibrous hypertrophy of the myocardium and interstitial fibrosis in the bioptate of the myocardium than in noninducibility of ventricular tachycardias and in the absence of histological changes of the myocardium. Thus in patients with cardiomyopathies a certain predicting significance seems to be ascribed to the evidence of late potentials in the highly increased signal-averaged ECG both for the ability to evoke ventricular tachycardias by programmed ventricular stimulation and for the presence of more distinct histological changes of the myocardium.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heinke
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Volkmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dannberg
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kühnert
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Ventrikuläre Spätpotentiale bei Patienten mit Kardiomyopathien in Abhängigkeit von elektrophysiologischen und myokardbioptischen Befunden.