title: Results and significance of Holter monitoring after direct percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction.
abstract: Whether acute and direct percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty improves the incidence of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in patients surviving acute myocardial infarction is not known. In 400 consecutively studied patients, Lown classification IVb on Holter monitoring was only associated with arrhythmia morbidity, whereas reduced ejection fraction was related to total and cardiac mortality and arrhythmia morbidity.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik I, Univeristy of Giessen, Germany. joerg.o.schwab@med.uni-giessen.de
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Schwab
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coch
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bernhoeft
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Waas
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Raedle-Hurst
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Tillmanns
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Waldecker
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016019:Survival Analysis; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome