Atrial Premature Complexes (Premature Atrial Contraction)

83  relevant articles (5 outcomes, 4 trials/studies) found for this Disease

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Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Atrial Fibrillation
2.	Tachycardia (Tachyarrhythmias)
3.	Sinus Tachycardia
4.	Ventricular Premature Complexes (Premature Ventricular Contraction)
5.	Cardiac Arrhythmias (Arrythmia)

Experts

1.	Dagres, Nikolaos: 1 article (08/2007)
2.	Panagiotakos, Demosthenes: 1 article (08/2007)
3.	Varounis, Christos: 1 article (08/2007)
4.	Maounis, Themistoclis: 1 article (08/2007)
5.	Cokkinos, Dennis V: 1 article (08/2007)
6.	Reĭngardene, D I: 1 article (01/2004)
7.	Azaravichene, A P: 1 article (01/2004)
8.	Talajic, M: 1 article (04/2001)
9.	Derakhchan, K: 1 article (04/2001)
10.	Nattel, S: 1 article (04/2001)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Atrial Premature Complexes:

1.	Amiodarone (Amiodarona)FDA LinkGeneric 01/01/2004 - "AIM: To assess antiarrhythmic amiodarone efficacy of suppressing atrial extrasystoles resistant to other antiarrhythmic modalities" 01/01/2004 - "Amiodarone (cordarone) efficiency in atrial extrasystole]" 01/01/1983 - "The clinical efficacy of amiodarone was observed in a group of 20 patients (9 women and 11 men) with a total 21 supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (16 paroxysms or premature supraventricular beats (PSB) and 5 with established arrhythmias), to whom amiodarone was given during one month: 800 mg/day the first week and 400 mg/day for 3 weeks" Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Verapamil (Calan)FDA LinkGeneric 01/01/1980 - "Beta-adrenergic blocking agents as well as cordaron and isoptin were effective in atrial extrasystole and sinus tachycardia" 01/01/1986 - "Isoptin and mesotrin (a new hypothetical calcium antagonist) were administered to 30 patients with frequent and persistent premature beats (22 patients with premature ventricular beats and 8 patients with premature supraventricular beats)" Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Adrenergic beta-Antagonists (beta-Adrenergic Blocking Agents)IBA 05/11/2002 - "The diminution of palpitations by beta-adrenergic blockers in hyperthyroid patients is due to both a decrease in heart rate and atrial extrasystoles, and is not the consequence of a normalisation of cardiac contractility" 01/01/1980 - "Beta-adrenergic blocking agents as well as cordaron and isoptin were effective in atrial extrasystole and sinus tachycardia" Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	PotassiumIBA 11/01/1983 - "Premature atrial contractions decreased in 6 patients, increased in 6 and remained unchanged in 4. There was no improvement in ventricular ectopic activity after plasma potassium correction" Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	tiracizineIBA 01/01/1996 - "The findings support high efficacy of bonnecor in patients with ventricular and atrial extrasystole, atrial fibrillation." Order ALL the reference details at left...
6.	EncainideFDA Link 04/01/1985 - "The antiarrhythmic effects of Encainide in acute intravenous and long-term oral therapy were investigated in 10 patients suffering from chronic atrial ectopic beats previously non-responsive to conventional therapy" 04/01/1985 - "Acute and long-term antiarrhythmia effect of encainide in chronic atrial extrasystole]" 12/20/1988 - "Few studies of the antiarrhythmic effects of encainide have included patients with primary atrial tachycardias and premature atrial contractions (PACs)" Order ALL the reference details at left...
7.	Anti-Arrhythmia AgentsIBA 12/01/1981 - "However, benign atrial extrasystoles are often neglected and are not considered a target of importance for the study of antiarrhythmic drugs" 04/01/2001 - "The class III antiarrhythmic drugs dofetilide and sotalol prevent AF induction by atrial premature complexes at doses that fail to terminate AF." Order ALL the reference details at left...
8.	Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)IBA 09/01/2004 - "Premature atrial contractions diminished (324.1 +/- 811.1 vs. 316 +/- 809.2) but the ventricular ones went from 1,493.6 +/- 3,530.9 in 24 hours, to 1,582.4 +/- 4,394.5 (p = ns) during control, among those with an EF < 40% and SDNN < 100 ms, we found an increase from 7,026.6 +/- 12,168.8 to 9,336 +/- 16,137.8 PVC's in 24-hours (p = 0.008)" 05/01/2005 - "A set of morphology contexts, corresponding to eight QRS morphologies (normal, PVC, premature atrial beat, paced beat, LBBB, fusion, RBBB, junctional premature beat), was extracted from 17 standard ECG records" 08/01/1996 - "MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Types of arrhythmia [eg, premature atrial contraction (PAC) or premature ventricular contraction (PVC)] were interpreted by attending anesthesiologists on lead II ECG" 03/01/1975 - "Only 38 of 233 (16 percent) episodes of arrhythmias, frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVC's), two or more PVC's in a row, multiform PVC's, ventricular bigeminy, trigeminy, premature atrial contractions (PAC's), and supraventricular tachyarrhythmias occurred for the first time in the second 12-hour period" 12/01/1989 - "Arrhythmia was diagnosed in 23 fetuses, 9 had transient sinus bradycardia, 8 had premature atrial contraction, 2 had premature ventricular contraction which disappeared after birth, 4 had sustained sinus bradycardia, one of them combined PVC occurring in bigeminy and trigeminy, which continued after birth" Order ALL the reference details at left...
9.	Furylfuramide (AF2)IBA 02/01/2005 - "CONCLUSIONS: (1) IRAF is common in patients undergoing PV isolation for AF, (2) is initiated by premature atrial beats with short coupling intervals, and (3) seems to be associated with conduction disturbances along the coronary sinus" 01/01/2006 - "Selection 900E/AF2.0 Vitatron DDDRP pacemaker (1) keeps an atrial arrhythmia diary thus providing detailed onset reports of arrhythmias of interest, (2) provides us data about the number of premature atrial contractions (PACs) and (3) plots heart rate in the 5 minutes preceding the detection of an atrial arrhythmia" 06/01/2004 - "Atrial pacing may prevent the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF) because of: (1) prevention of the relative bradycardia that triggers paroxysmal AF; (2) prevention of the bradycardia induced dispersion of refractoriness; (3)suppression or reduction of premature atrial contractions that initiate reentry and predispose to AF; (4) preservation of AV synchrony, which might prevent switch induced changes in atrial repolarization predisposing to AF" 01/01/1984 - "In the other 187 cases, the following results were obtained: 1) 9 patients (4,8%) had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), 2) 6 patients (3,2%) had paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT), 3) 11 patients (5,9%) had runs of atrial extrasystoles, 4) 19 patients (10%) had isolated atrial extrasystoles (IAE)" Order ALL the reference details at left...
10.	Atropine (Hyoscyamine)FDA LinkGeneric 06/01/1976 - "Atropine administration produced a significant increase in the percentage of the sinus cycle length at which premature atrial contractions penetrated and reset the sinus node" 05/01/1992 - "Atropine decreased the frequency of bradycardia (9% vs. 24%) and premature atrial contractions (47% vs. 61%) and increased the frequency of sinus tachycardia (88% vs. 75%)" 05/01/1992 - "Atropine premedication may further decrease the frequency of premature atrial contractions and bradycardia, while increasing the frequency of tachycardia." 01/01/1995 - "Premature atrial contractions were observed in two patients (one succinylcholine/atropine 20 micrograms.kg-1, one vecuronium)" 10/01/1986 - "Therefore, the comparative effects of atropine (A) and ciclotropium bromide (C) on heart rate (HR) and electrical stimulation thresholds for repetitive atrial extrasystoles (RET) and fibrillation (AFT) were established in 14 mongrel dogs (BW 20-30 kg, artificial ventilation, piritramide-N2O anaesthesia)" Order ALL the reference details at left...

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Electric Countershock (Cardioversion) 10/01/2008 - "CONCLUSION: Premature atrial contractions were the most common potential trigger mechanism occurring immediately after cardioversion in patients with persistent AF" 06/19/2002 - "However, the procedure may be challenging due to the complex anatomy of the left atrium and PVs, uncertain catheter positioning within the PVs and difficulties in mapping atrial extrasystoles, which may be rare or repeatedly induce AF and require cardioversion" 09/19/2000 - "Measurements performed at baseline, after establishment of chronic AF, and then at 4 hours and again at 7 to 14 days after cardioversion to sinus rhythm included atrial effective refractory periods, AF cycle lengths, left atrial dimensions, premature atrial contraction (PAC) frequency, and atrial vulnerability to atrial extrastimuli" 01/01/1998 - "Furthermore, in patients with a recurrence of AF, there was a positive correlation between the duration of the shortest coupling interval of the premature atrial beats after cardioversion and the timing of the recurrence of AF (p = 0.0013)" 12/01/2002 - "Animal studies suggested that septal activation was asynchronous and discordant, while a human study outlined the multiple origins of atrial ectopic beats following DC cardioversion in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation" Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Electrodes (Electrode) 03/01/1980 - "We used close bipolar intramural electrodes and catheter electrodes to study the characteristics of conduction in the bundle of His and proximal bundle branches during premature atrial beats in 17 open-chest anesthetized dogs" 05/01/2002 - "As a trigger mechanism, atrial extrasystoles were simulated by constant asynchronous pacing at a cycle length of 1000 ms from randomly selected right or left atrial electrodes, using a biatrial epicardial multielectrode with 128 bipoles" Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Transplants (Transplant) 06/01/1994 - "Ventricular ectopic beats/atrial ectopic beats ratio increased in the autologous BMT group after graft infusion (0.7 vs 0, p = 0.1)" Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	Vacuum Curettage (Vacuum Pump) 09/15/1980 - "11 of 103 patients (10.6%) demonstrated premature atrial contractions or premature ventricular contractions during suction curettage (P 0.005)" Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	Homologous Transplantation (Allograft) 03/01/1978 - "This report describes the induction of atrial extrasystoles in the donor heart by preceding ventricular extrasystoles in the recipient heart of a patient with a biventricular bypass heterotopic cardiac homograft" Order ALL the reference details at left...