Raised serum prolactin levels associated with hirsutism and amenorrhoea.

Abstract

Praecordial leads of 19 year old girl (case 1).Upper: during episode of ventricular tachycardia.Lower.reversion to sinus rhythm during induction with 400 mg propanidid.to intravenous practolol, but this failed during an admission in November 1974.She reverted to sinus rhythm soon after receiving 400 mg propanidid.In March 1975 she was readmitted with a similar tachycardia.Five minutes after receiving 500 mg propanidid she again reverted to sinus rhythm.Case 3.-A 22-year-old woman with Fallot's tetralogy, reconstructed seven years earlier, developed a ventricular tachycardia.She failed to revert-with propanidid though her ventricular rate fell from 190 to 170 beats/min.Case 4.-A 64-year-old man with ischaemic heart disease developed ventric- ular tachycardia.He did not revert after 400 mg propanidid and D.C. shock was applied one minute later.Cases 5 and 6.-These two patients with atrial fibrillation also failed to revert after propanidid.Case 7.-This patient went into atrial fibrillation after a gastrectomy.The fibrillation spontaneously reverted to a supraventricular tachycardia.After 250 mg propanidid the patients went into atrial flutter.Thus propanidid failed to control the rhythm disturbance in cases 3 to 7. In case 7 it converted supraventricular tachycardia to atrial flutter. 3