Sustained ventricular tachycardia in cardiac hemochromatosis treated with amiodarone

Yalcinkaya S., Kumbasar S., Semiz E., Tosun Z., Paksoy N.

JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, vol.30, no.2, pp.147-149, 1997 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 30 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 1997
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0022-0736(97)80024-6
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF ELECTROCARDIOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.147-149
  • Keywords: ventricular tachycardia, hemochromatosis, amiodarone, treatment, complications
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: No

Abstract

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.