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Direct current cardioversion does not cause cardiac damage: evidence from cardiac troponin T estimation
1Department of Cardiology, Mayday University Hospital, Croydon, Surrey, UK.
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|January 6, 1999
Abstract
Aim:
To determine whether elective direct current (dc) cardioversion of atrial fibrillation/flutter causes myocardial damage.
Methods And Results:
Cardiac troponin T and creatine kinase were estimated 20-28 hours after dc cardioversion in 51 patients who received dc shocks for elective cardioversion of chronic atrial fibrillation/flutter. Although creatine kinase was raised in 44 patients, cardiac troponin T was undetectable in all patients.
Conclusion:
Cardiac damage does not occur as a result of cardioversion.