Syncope and recurrent ventricular tachycardia with a newly-identified desmosomal gene mutation
| Autor: | Jennifer I Schuitema, Timothy Fritz, Andre Gauri, Sandeep Banga, Darryl Elmouchi, Carly A Judson, Bohuslav Finta, Nagib Chalfoun, Musa Dahu, Richard McNamara, Alan Woelfel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Recurrent ventricular tachycardia Long QT syndrome Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Syncope (genus) Case Report Gene mutation medicine.disease Ventricular tachycardia biology.organism_classification Right ventricular cardiomyopathy Electrophysiology study Internal medicine cardiovascular system Cardiology Medicine cardiovascular diseases business |
| Zdroj: | Global Cardiology Science & Practice |
| ISSN: | 2305-7823 |
| DOI: | 10.5339/gcsp.2013.33 |
| Popis: | Ventricular arrhythmias in young people most commonly occur due to the presence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome or Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. We present a case in which the patient had exercise induced syncopal spells and was found to have ventricular tachycardia (VT) during both exercise stress testing and an electrophysiology study. Further genetic studies showed a previously unseen desmosomal gene mutation confirming the presence of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC). |
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