Effects of endodontic treatment on heart rate, blood pressure and electrocardiogram of elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases
- VernacularTitle:牙齿开髓治疗对老年心血管病患者心率、血压、心电图的影响
- Author:
Zesi WANG
;
Zhonggui WANG
;
Xianzhen XIAO
;
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cardiovascular diseases;
Dental pulp diseases
- From:
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics
2001;0(05):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To study the safety of opening pulp chamber therapy for elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases. Methods Blood pressure, heart rate and electrocardiography were examined during the treatment by opening of pulp chamber for patients with acute and chronic pulpititis and cardiovascular diseases. Patients without cardiovascular disease were used as controls. Results Both blood pressure and heart rates were increased during local anesthetic injection(14/6 mm Hg, 14 4/6 6 mmHg; 4 8, 4 1 times/min) and during the opening of pulp chamber(16/9 mm Hg, 19/12 mm Hg; 6 4, 5 9 times/min) for both patients and control groups with statistically significant differences compared with that before operation. But there was no statistically significant differences between the patients with cardiovascular diseases and the controls during the local anesthetic injection and the opening of pulp chamber. Electrocardiogram showed myocardial ischemia deteriorated in some patients with cardiovascular diseases. Conclusions Endodontic treatment under monitoring by electrocardiography is safe and can be recommended to the elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases
