Open AccessThe Initial (Earliest) Report of Polymorphous Ventricular Tachycardia
Author(s) -
Jani Sonal,
Schweitzer Paul
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of noninvasive electrocardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1542-474X
pISSN - 1082-720X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1542-474x.2006.00116.x
Subject(s) - medicine , catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia , torsades de pointes , cardiology , ventricular tachycardia , tachycardia , heart block , long qt syndrome , electrocardiography , qt interval , ryanodine receptor 2 , ryanodine receptor , calcium
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.