Open AccessSwallowing‐induced arrhythmia
Author(s) -
Matsubara K.,
Inoue D.,
Morikawa Y.,
Shirayama T.,
Omori I.,
Katsume H.,
Nakagawa M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960111114
Subject(s) - medicine , swallowing , reflex , atropine , anesthesia , vagovagal reflex , blockade , cardiac arrhythmia , sympathetic activity , cardiology , heart rate , atrial fibrillation , receptor , surgery , blood pressure
Deglutition tachyarrhythmia, first reported in 1926 by Sakai and Mori, is a rare clinical entity. Vagal reflex has been supposed to be responsible for the induction of the arrhythmia. We have recently studied a patient with swallowing‐induced premature atrial contractions. Atropine sulfate and catecholamine infusion increased the frequency of the arrhythmia, while beta blockade suppressed it. It is suggested that the mechanism of the swallowing‐induced arrhythmia might be related to a sympathetic reflex. As far as we know, there have been few reports in which the sympathetic reflex was proposed to be responsible for the arrhythmia.