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Sudden Cardiac Death As a Result of Neglected Hypopituitarism
Cardiac involvement infrequently occurs in hypopituitarism, and lethal cardiac arrhythmias are rarely reported. We present a middle age female who died as a consequence of refractory ventricular arrhythmia whose medical history and previous laboratory investigation were consistent with hypopituitari...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Kowsar
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825983 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijem.5374 |
Sumario: | Cardiac involvement infrequently occurs in hypopituitarism, and lethal cardiac arrhythmias are rarely reported. We present a middle age female who died as a consequence of refractory ventricular arrhythmia whose medical history and previous laboratory investigation were consistent with hypopituitarism. We conclude that hypopituitarism may lead to electrocardiographic changes and malignant ventricular arrhythmia and should be included in laboratory investigation and differential diagnosis of patients presenting with long QT syndrome |
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