A Case of Aborted Sudden Cardiac Death and Consequent Extreme Electrical Storm Secondary to a Metastatic Cardiac Tumor
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Yudi, Matias
Batra, Ravinder
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
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We report a 43-year-old man with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator for aborted sudden cardiac death. He represents in extreme electrical storm with 111 different ventricular fibrillation episodes. Successful treatment was achieved with multiple antiarrhythmic agents, mechanical ventilation, external shocks, and ultimately overdrive pacing. A cardiac magnetic resonance scan revealed two cardiac lesions that were later diagnosed as metastatic fibrosarcoma. This case highlights two very important and increasingly common cardiological dilemmas: the management of extreme electrical storm and the role of magnetic resonance ...
View more >We report a 43-year-old man with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator for aborted sudden cardiac death. He represents in extreme electrical storm with 111 different ventricular fibrillation episodes. Successful treatment was achieved with multiple antiarrhythmic agents, mechanical ventilation, external shocks, and ultimately overdrive pacing. A cardiac magnetic resonance scan revealed two cardiac lesions that were later diagnosed as metastatic fibrosarcoma. This case highlights two very important and increasingly common cardiological dilemmas: the management of extreme electrical storm and the role of magnetic resonance imaging in aborted cardiac death patients with an apparent "normal" heart.
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View more >We report a 43-year-old man with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator for aborted sudden cardiac death. He represents in extreme electrical storm with 111 different ventricular fibrillation episodes. Successful treatment was achieved with multiple antiarrhythmic agents, mechanical ventilation, external shocks, and ultimately overdrive pacing. A cardiac magnetic resonance scan revealed two cardiac lesions that were later diagnosed as metastatic fibrosarcoma. This case highlights two very important and increasingly common cardiological dilemmas: the management of extreme electrical storm and the role of magnetic resonance imaging in aborted cardiac death patients with an apparent "normal" heart.
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PACE
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Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biomedical Engineering
Clinical Sciences