[Malignant fascicular ventricular tachycardia degenerating into ventricular fibrillation in a patient with early repolarization syndrome]

Ad Kane; P Defaye; P Jacon; A Mbaye; J Machecourt

doi:10.1016/j.ancard.2011.05.004

[Malignant fascicular ventricular tachycardia degenerating into ventricular fibrillation in a patient with early repolarization syndrome]

Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris). 2012 Aug;61(4):292-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ancard.2011.05.004. Epub 2011 Jun 2.

[Article in French]

Authors

Ad Kane¹, P Defaye, P Jacon, A Mbaye, J Machecourt

Affiliation

¹ Unité d'arythmie, département de cardiologie, CHU Michallon, BP 217X, 38043 Grenoble cedex 09, France. damskane@hotmail.com

PMID: 21665187
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancard.2011.05.004

Abstract

A 45-year-old man was hospitalized for syncope due to fascicular ventricular tachycardia degenerating into ventricular fibrillation (VF). The electrocardiogram showed an early repolarization syndrome. The arrhythmia was repetitive and disappeared after oral hydroquinidine. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was implanted; subsequently, the patient was arrhythmia free at 9 months follow-up.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / therapeutic use*
Defibrillators, Implantable*
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Conduction System / physiopathology
Humans
Inpatients
Male
Middle Aged
Prostheses and Implants
Quinidine / analogs & derivatives*
Quinidine / therapeutic use
Syncope / etiology
Syndrome
Tachycardia, Ventricular / complications
Tachycardia, Ventricular / diagnosis
Tachycardia, Ventricular / physiopathology
Tachycardia, Ventricular / therapy*
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Fibrillation / diagnosis
Ventricular Fibrillation / etiology
Ventricular Fibrillation / physiopathology
Ventricular Fibrillation / therapy*

Substances

Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
hydroquinidine
Quinidine