- 著者
- Makoto Kodama Hirotaka Oda Masaaki Okabe Yoshifusa Aizawa Tohru Izumi
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.65, no.11, pp.961-964, 2001 (Released:2001-10-25)
- 参考文献数
- 16
- 被引用文献数
- 21 26
The frequency of myocarditis and the prognosis for patients remains uncertain and, moreover, the clinical classification of myocarditis is controversial. From 1985 to 2000, 71 adult patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were admitted to 11 cardiovascular centers. Of these, 48 cases had histology proven myocarditis: 41 cases of lymphocytic myocarditis, 6 of giant cell myocarditis and 1 of eosinophilic myocarditis. Myocarditis was classified as acute (30 cases) or chronic (18 cases) according to the onset of the disease, and acute myocarditis was further categorized into common or fulminant type depending on whether or not patients required mechanical circulatory support in the management of heart failure (9 and 21 cases, respectively). Chronic myocarditis was divided into 3 subgroups: a persistent type lasting over 3 months after distinct onset (3 cases), a recurrent type (2 cases) and a latent form (13 cases). The early mortality of these 5 subtypes of myocarditis were acute common 22%, acute fluminant 43%, chronic persistent 33%, chronic recurrent 50%, and chronic latent 38%. The overall early mortality of all patients with myocarditis was 38% in spite of aggressive treatment during hospitalization. On the other hand, the long-term prognosis of patients with myocarditis was favorable; only 4 cases, who survived the active phase, died in the late phase: 1 had fulminant myocarditis and the other 3 had the chronic latent form. Thus, the early mortality of patients with myocarditis was very high regardless of the subtype, but if patients can survive the active phase, they have a favorable prognosis except with the chronic latent form. (Jpn Circ J 2001; 65: 961 - 964)
- 著者
- Masayuki Goto Masahito Sato Hitoshi Kitazawa Yasushi Komatsu Koichi Fuse Minoru Takahashi Masaaki Okabe Akira Yamashina Yoshifusa Aizawa
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.54, no.10, pp.1223-1226, 2015 (Released:2015-05-15)
- 参考文献数
- 23
- 被引用文献数
- 1 4
A 41-year-old man developed sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) with a left bundle branch block and inferior axis pattern during treadmill exercise concomitantly with unmasking of the typical Brugada electrocardiography (ECG) pattern. The typical ECG phenotype was provoked by a class IC drug. VT was not inducible with programmed electrical stimulation, but premature ventricular beat and non-sustained VT with the same morphology increased in frequency with isoproterenol treatment. Additionally, atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) was induced by electrical stimulation and VT and AVNRT were treated by radiofrequency catheter ablation.
- 著者
- Masahito Sato Satoru Fujita Atushi Saito Yoshio Ikeda Hitoshi Kitazawa Minoru Takahashi Junji Ishiguro Masaaki Okabe Yuichi Nakamura Tsuneo Nagai Hiroshi Watanabe Makoto Kodama Yoshifusa Aizawa
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.70, no.8, pp.947-953, 2006 (Released:2006-07-25)
- 参考文献数
- 24
- 被引用文献数
- 70 89
Background On October 23, 2004, a major earthquake, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale, occurred in Niigata Prefecture in Japan. Emotional stress is important as a trigger of transient left ventricular apical ballooning (so-called `Takotsubo' cardiomyopathy), but its incidence and clinical profile immediately after a natural disaster have not been fully elucidated. Methods and Results `Takotsubo' cardiomyopathy was diagnosed in 16 patients (1 man, 15 women, mean age 71.5 years) within 1 month after the earthquake. Of them, 13 (81%) lived in areas where the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale registered 6 or above, and 11 (69%) developed symptoms on the day of the earthquake. The incidence of `Takotsubo' cardiomyopathy 1 month after the earthquake was approximately 24-fold higher near the epicenter than that before the earthquake. Conclusion `Takotsubo' cardiomyopathy can occur on the day of the earthquake in elderly women living near the epicenter. (Circ J 2006; 70: 947 - 953)