Journal article
Focal origin of ventricular fibrillation in a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy
Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol.96(9), pp.1228-1231
09/01/2004
PMCID: PMC2568466
PMID: 15481753
Abstract
A 65-year-old patient with history of ischemic cardiomyopathy admitted to the hospital for chest pain and subsequently experienced incessant ventricular fibrillation (VF), requiring repeated defibrillation. Coronary angiogram was unchanged, compared to a study a year before, and acute ischemia was not considered to be the etiology of the VF. A particular premature ventricular contraction morphology was noted on telemetry prior to each episode of VF. The patient subsequently underwent successful radiofrequency ablation of a focus in the left ventricular free wall. Careful examination of initiating foci of VF or polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, with radiofrequency ablation in appropriate cases, could be potentially life-saving.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Focal origin of ventricular fibrillation in a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Creators
- Mahi Lakshmi Ashwath - Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA, USAFelix O. Sogade - Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol.96(9), pp.1228-1231
- Publisher
- National Medical Association
- PMID
- 15481753
- PMCID
- PMC2568466
- ISSN
- 0027-9684
- eISSN
- 1943-4693
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2004
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Cardiovascular Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359828002771
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