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Isolated T Wave Alternans Progressing To QRS-T aLternation After Ventricular Defibrillation

Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Good Samaritan Hospital, 1033 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona

Ar-Thur Lipschultz

Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Good Samaritan Hospital, 1033 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona

Alberto Benchimol

Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Good Samaritan Hospital, 1033 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona, Good Samaritan Hospital P.O. Box 2989 Phoenix, Arizona 85062

Kenneth B. Desser

Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Good Samaritan Hospital, 1033 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, Arizona

A 54-year-old woman underwent re placement of a thrombosed Björk-Shi ley aortic valve prosthesis. Post oper ative electrical defibrillation resulted in isolated T wave alternation which progressed to total QRS-T electrical al ternans. This report represents the first description of such a phenomenon.

Angiology, Vol. 28, No. 1, 58-62 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/000331977702800110


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