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Ventricular fibrillation in a patient with Wolff‐Parkinson‐White syndrome unrelated to pre‐excited atrial fibrillation
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Aranyo, Julia Bazan, Victor Rueda, Ferran Sarrias, Axel Bisbal, Felipe Villuendas, Roger |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | Journal: Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology A 52-year-old man was admitted due to out-hospital cardiac arrest. Recurrent ventricular fibrillation (VF) occurred under therapeutic hypothermia thereafter. Previously inadverted full pre-excitation was documented exclusively and immediately prior to 4 out of the 5 VF relapses. Coronary vasospasm and early repolarization were also documented. An electrophysiological study demonstrated poor anterograde conduction over a left-sided accessory pathway. We theorize that maximum pre-excitation favored in-hospital VF by augmenting the repolarization vulnerability induced by therapeutic hypothermia, with coronary vasospasm accounting as the probable cause of out-hospital VF. A plausible VF mechanism in WPW syndrome unrelated to pre-excited atrial fibrillation is discussed. |
| Related Links | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6931407/pdf |
| e-ISSN | 1542474X |
| DOI | 10.1111/anec.12662 |
| Journal | Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2019-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology Cardiac Arrest/sudden Death Clinical Electrophysiology Ventricular Tachycardia/fibrillation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
