A Study on Reperfusion Arrhythmia 1. Incidence of Reperfusion Arrhythmia According to the Occlusive Position of Coronary Artery in the Dog

Reperfusion Arrhythmia에 관한 연구 1. 관상동맥 폐색위치에 따른 Reperfusion Arrhythnia 발생

The incidence of reperfusion arrhythmia(RA) according to occlusive position of coronary artery was induced in 25 open-chest dogs anestherized with halothan, these were ligated between anterior ventricular branch and marginal branch of left circumflex artery for 30 minutes and after releasing of the ligation, the incidence of RA was observed during 5 minutes. The incidence rate of RA occurred in 36％(9 heads) of the cases, 20%(5 heads) of them died before reperfusion and 44％(11 heads) of them survived after reperfusion. In the classification according to the length of anterior ventricular branch in left circumflex artery, the incidence rate of RA occurred in 80％ of the group I(5 heads) which belongs to short size of anterior ventricilar branch, in 50% of the group II (8 heads) which belongs to medium size, in 8.3% of the group III(12 heads) which belongs to long size and in 61.5% of the groups I and II(13 heads). These results showed the higher incidence rate of RA than in other occlusive position (left anterior descending artery), and it may be estimated that the incidence of RA changed with the significant difference according to the lengthe of anterior ventricular branch, in other words, dimension of ischemic area in left ventricle.