Torsade de pointes due to coxsackie B3 myocarditis
| Autor: | Pinhas Sareli, Colin L. Schamroth, Leo Schamroth, J. Passias |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Tachycardia medicine.medical_specialty Myocarditis Viral Myocarditis Coxsackievirus Infections medicine.disease_cause QT interval Electrocardiography Internal medicine medicine Humans In patient medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Cardiology Enterovirus Female Viral disease medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Cardiology. 10:361-362 |
| ISSN: | 1932-8737 0160-9289 |
| Popis: | Viral myocarditis may present with a variety of electrocardiologic aberrations. Torsade de pointes, a potentially malignant ventricular arrhythmia associated with prolongation of the QT interval has not been described in patients with acute viral myocarditis. This report details this finding in a patient with coxsackie B3 myocarditis in whom symptomatic torsade de pointes was documented. |
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