Role of electrophysiological study and catheter ablation for recurrent ventricular tachycardia complicating myocarditis

Title:

Role of electrophysiological study and catheter ablation for recurrent ventricular tachycardia complicating myocarditis
Role of electrophysiological study and catheter ablation for recurrent ventricular tachycardia complicating myocarditis

Creator:

Cecchi, Emanuele, Fatucchi, Serena, Crudeli, Elena, and Giglioli, Cristina

Contributor:

Cecchi, Emanuele, Fatucchi, Serena, Crudeli, Elena, and Giglioli, Cristina

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:bmc12036493-8729b3ca-909f-43cc-a83f-f8f538e89f1c
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http://www.lfhk.cuni.cz/article.asp?nArticleID=6944&nLanguageID=2
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Subject:

dospělí, katetrizační ablace, elektrická defibrilace, elektrokardiografie, elektrofyziologické techniky kardiologické, lidé, mužské pohlaví, myokarditida--komplikace, recidiva, and komorová tachykardie--diagnóza--chirurgie--komplikace--terapie

Type:

model:article, article, Text, kazuistiky, and TEXT

Format:

braille, text, and regular print

Description:

Here we report the case of a 31-year-old man admitted to our hospital with echocardiografic and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance signs of myocarditis complicated by ventricular tachycardia, initially resolved with direct current shock. After the recurrence of ventricular tachycardia the patient was submitted to electrophysiological study revealing a re-entrant circuit at the level of the medium segment of interventricular septum, successfully treated with transcatheter ablation. This case highlights how the presence of recurrent ventricular arrhythmias at the onset of acute myocarditis, suspected or proven, could be associated with a pre-existing arrhythmogenic substrate, therefore these patients should be submitted to electrophysiological study in order to rule out the presence of arrhythmogenic focuses that can be treated with transcatheter ablation., Emanuele Cecchi, Serena Fatucchi, Elena Crudeli, Cristina Giglioli, and Literatura 15

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Relation:

Acta medica (Hradec Králové)--MED00010947

Source:

Acta medica (Hradec Králové) | 2012 Volume:55 | Number:2

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CDK

Metadata only:

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Date:

2012