Philip O. Ettinger

TL;DR: Cardiac arrhythmias presenting during weekend or holiday drinking episodes are associated with conduction delays and depressed cardiac performance indicative of early cardiomyopathy and suggest a “holiday heart” syndrome.

TL;DR: It was concluded that chronic diabetes mellitus can alter myocardial composition and function independent of vascular effects.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the systolic times are a valid measure of contractility which should prove useful in comparing patients with cardiac pathology confined to the LV myocardium and in following patients with extramyocardial hemodynamic lesions of constant severity.

TL;DR: Although slow systemic increase of K + induces asystole in animals, administration to a region of myocardium produces ventricular ectopic beats and fibrillation, the latter effect may be due to re-entry and may be mechanistically similar to the arrhythmias of early ischemia.

TL;DR: Extended ethanol intake in the absence of evident malnutrition resulted in demonstrable intraventricular conduction abnormalities and morphologic alterations which were related to duration of ingestion, consistent with a cumulative toxic effect of ethanol.