Sustained ventricular tachycardia in cardiac hemochromatosis treated with amiodarone
JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, cilt.30, sa.2, ss.147-149, 1997 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- 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
- Akdeniz 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.