QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major

We report the case of a 23-year-old male with thalassemia major who developed long QT and continuous ventricular tachycardia (VT). Electrocardiography, echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were used for diagnosis and risk stratification. VT causes and treatments are present...

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Autores principales: Demirtas, Derya, Demirtas, Abdullah Orhan, Sumbul, Hilmi Erdem, Koc, Ayse Selcan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31316843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5791094
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author Demirtas, Derya
Demirtas, Abdullah Orhan
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description We report the case of a 23-year-old male with thalassemia major who developed long QT and continuous ventricular tachycardia (VT). Electrocardiography, echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were used for diagnosis and risk stratification. VT causes and treatments are presented and discussed. Ventricular arrhythmia can be treated by normalizing QT interval with high-dose beta-blocker therapy. However, MRI-compatible internal cardiac defibrillator implantation was performed due to the high risk in this patient.
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spelling pubmed-66044642019-07-17 QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major Demirtas, Derya Demirtas, Abdullah Orhan Sumbul, Hilmi Erdem Koc, Ayse Selcan Case Rep Hematol Case Report We report the case of a 23-year-old male with thalassemia major who developed long QT and continuous ventricular tachycardia (VT). Electrocardiography, echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were used for diagnosis and risk stratification. VT causes and treatments are presented and discussed. Ventricular arrhythmia can be treated by normalizing QT interval with high-dose beta-blocker therapy. However, MRI-compatible internal cardiac defibrillator implantation was performed due to the high risk in this patient. Hindawi 2019-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6604464/ /pubmed/31316843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5791094 Text en Copyright © 2019 Derya Demirtas et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Demirtas, Derya
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QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major
title QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major
title_full QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major
title_fullStr QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major
title_full_unstemmed QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major
title_short QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major
title_sort qt prolongation and associated ventricular tachycardia due to cardiac iron load in a patient with thalassemia major
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31316843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5791094
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