Thoracoscopic sympathectomy for incessant polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in chronic chagasic myocarditis -: A case report

被引：7

作者：

Gutierrez, Oswaldo

Garita, Elliot

Salazar, Carlos

机构：

[1] Univ Costa Rica, Mexico Hosp, Dept Cardiol, Arrhythmia Serv, San Jose, Costa Rica

[2] Rafael Calderon Guardia Hosp, Dept Cardiothorac Surg, San Jose, Costa Rica

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY | 2007年 / 119卷 / 02期

关键词：

Chagas disease; ventricular tachycardia; thoracoscopic sympathectomy; chagasic myocardifis;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.07.138

中图分类号：

R5 [内科学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100201 ;

摘要：

Management of complex ventricular arrhythmias due to chagasic myocarditis is challenging. We herein present the case of a young male who was presented with incessant well tolerated polymorphic ventricular tachycardia of unknown cause, who was unresponsive to conventional medical management and as a last resort was submitted to a thoracoscopic bilateral sympathectomy, and showed remarkable improvement in his arrhythmia control. Later on his tests returned positive for Chagas' disease and shortly thereafter he suddenly died. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：255 / 257

页数：3

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