title: The initial (earliest) report of polymorphous ventricular tachycardia.
abstract: In these short historical notes, we describe the early history of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. Polymorphous ventricular tachycardia was probably first noted in 1918 by Wilson and Robinson. In a publication describing complete heart block and ventriculophasic arrhythmia, they noted a tachyarrhythmia characterized by multiple extrasystoles of different types at a rapid rate. Also, we briefly discuss the earliest recognized torsades de pointes by Dessertenes in 1966 and the first description of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, by Reid in 1977.
authors.affiliation: Beth Israel Medical Center, University Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, New York, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: Sonal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jani
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schweitzer
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D016171:Torsades de Pointes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*