Sustained ventricular tachycardia in cardiac hemochromatosis treated with amiodarone

Yalcinkaya S., KUMBASAR S. D., Semiz E., Tosun Z., Paksoy N.

JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, cilt.30, sa.2, ss.147-149, 1997 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 1997
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/s0022-0736(97)80024-6
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.147-149
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: ventricular tachycardia, hemochromatosis, amiodarone, treatment, complications
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Cardiac hemochromatosis can cause heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. Among these arrhythmias, ventricular tachycardia may be resistant to treatment. A case of cardiac hemochromatosis complicated with ventricular tachycardia that did not respond to intravenous lidocaine, pro cainamide or propafenone, nor to DC cardioversion, was successfully treated with amiodarone. Amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic drug, may be highly effective in similar cases.