Belhassen and Tovia-Brodie commented on our study on malignant Purkinje ectopy after
ajmaline or flecainide infusion in a cohort of patients with different ventricular
arrhythmias. By making reference to Julius Caesar (The Gospels), they mention the omission of a case report by Tsuchiya et al showing polymorphic
and monomorphic ventricular tachycardia induced by pilsicainide, another sodium channel
blocker. Noteworthy, individual cases using doxepin (inhibitor of HERG channel), lidocaine
(sodium channel blocker), atropine, isoproterenol, or electrolytic disturbance (hypokalemia)
have also been reported earlier,
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and here we mentioned a case induced by propofol used during anesthesia. Purkinje
ectopy can also be favored by the presence of structural heart disease that facilitates
the induction of triggered activity, which is the probable mechanism of this arrhythmia
(ie Purkinje ectopy).
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The study by Nagai et al, quoted by Belhassen, reports a reentrant ventricular tachycardia
that is relevant to another (conductive) Purkinje-related mechanism. The reference
Steinberg et al (2021) was quoted in our article.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: August 20, 2022
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- PreviewEscande et al1 recently reported the rare but reproducible occurrence of short-coupled premature ventricular complexes after the administration of sodium channel blockers (ajmaline or flecainide) in patients with suspected or documented severe idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias. These arrhythmias mostly originated from the Purkinje tissue and could be treated by ablation.
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