Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation

A 66-year-old woman underwent successful radiofrequency catheter ablation for long-lasting, drug refractory fast atrial flutter. Two days later she had a cardiac arrest due to torsades de pointes (TdP) tachycardia attributed to relative sinus bradycardia and QT interval prolongation. After successfu...

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Autores principales: Mantziari, Aglaia-Angeliki, Vassilikos, Vassilios P, Chatzizisis, Yiannis S, Dakos, Georgios, Stavropoulos, Georgios, Paraskevaidis, Stelios, Styliadis, Ioannis H
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21660252
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401105010001
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author Mantziari, Aglaia-Angeliki
Vassilikos, Vassilios P
Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Dakos, Georgios
Stavropoulos, Georgios
Paraskevaidis, Stelios
Styliadis, Ioannis H
author_facet Mantziari, Aglaia-Angeliki
Vassilikos, Vassilios P
Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Dakos, Georgios
Stavropoulos, Georgios
Paraskevaidis, Stelios
Styliadis, Ioannis H
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description A 66-year-old woman underwent successful radiofrequency catheter ablation for long-lasting, drug refractory fast atrial flutter. Two days later she had a cardiac arrest due to torsades de pointes (TdP) tachycardia attributed to relative sinus bradycardia and QT interval prolongation. After successful resuscitation further episodes of TdP occurred, which were treated with temporary pacing. Because of concomitant systolic dysfunction due to ischemic and valvular heart disease she was finally treated with an implantable defibrillator. In conclusion we strongly advise prolonged monitoring for 2 or more days for patients with structural heart disease following successful catheter ablation for long lasting tachyarrhythmias.
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spelling pubmed-31096442011-06-09 Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation Mantziari, Aglaia-Angeliki Vassilikos, Vassilios P Chatzizisis, Yiannis S Dakos, Georgios Stavropoulos, Georgios Paraskevaidis, Stelios Styliadis, Ioannis H Open Cardiovasc Med J Article A 66-year-old woman underwent successful radiofrequency catheter ablation for long-lasting, drug refractory fast atrial flutter. Two days later she had a cardiac arrest due to torsades de pointes (TdP) tachycardia attributed to relative sinus bradycardia and QT interval prolongation. After successful resuscitation further episodes of TdP occurred, which were treated with temporary pacing. Because of concomitant systolic dysfunction due to ischemic and valvular heart disease she was finally treated with an implantable defibrillator. In conclusion we strongly advise prolonged monitoring for 2 or more days for patients with structural heart disease following successful catheter ablation for long lasting tachyarrhythmias. Bentham Open 2011-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3109644/ /pubmed/21660252 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401105010001 Text en © Mantziari et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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Mantziari, Aglaia-Angeliki
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Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Dakos, Georgios
Stavropoulos, Georgios
Paraskevaidis, Stelios
Styliadis, Ioannis H
Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
title Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
title_full Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
title_fullStr Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
title_full_unstemmed Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
title_short Cardiac Arrest Caused by Torsades de Pointes Tachycardia after Successful Atrial Flutter Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation
title_sort cardiac arrest caused by torsades de pointes tachycardia after successful atrial flutter radiofrequency catheter ablation
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21660252
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401105010001
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