title: [Comparative study of ischemia-induced and reperfusion-induced ventricular fibrillation in pigs].
abstract: To have a better understanding of reperfusion-induced ventricular fibrillation (VF), we studied the relevant morbidity in pigs and compared it with that of the ischemia-induced VF. In 10 hearts of anesthetized chest-open pigs, a total of 127 cycles of various degrees and varied duration of ischemia and reperfusion were completed. VF occurred 13 times (10.2%). Of these, 11 were ischemia-induced VF, while only 2 were reperfusion-induced VF. In two cases of ischemia-induced VF, electric defibrillation failed before the reestablishment of left anterior interventricular branch of coronary artery flow, but after adequate reflowing, all VF turned out to be sinus-rhythm by electric defibrillation. The results suggest that ventricular fibrillation be mainly induced by ischemia but less induced by reperfusion.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hunag
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004554:Electric Countershock; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications*; D015428:Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / Q000150:complications*; D013552:Swine; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy