Successful Subcutaneous Defibrillator Implantation in a Pregnant Patient With Long QT Syndrome

A 26-year-old woman with recurrent unexplained syncope in the postpartum period was diagnosed with long QT syndrome type 2. Traditional implantation of defibrillator using fluoroscopy became contraindicated after she again became pregnant prior to device implantation. A subcutaneous defibrillator wa...

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Autores principales: Myadam, Rahul, Gupta, Sanjaya K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Mini-Focus Issue: Electrophysiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.12.038
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description A 26-year-old woman with recurrent unexplained syncope in the postpartum period was diagnosed with long QT syndrome type 2. Traditional implantation of defibrillator using fluoroscopy became contraindicated after she again became pregnant prior to device implantation. A subcutaneous defibrillator was successfully implanted in the second trimester, after a multidisciplinary evaluation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-83110492021-07-26 Successful Subcutaneous Defibrillator Implantation in a Pregnant Patient With Long QT Syndrome Myadam, Rahul Gupta, Sanjaya K. JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: Electrophysiology A 26-year-old woman with recurrent unexplained syncope in the postpartum period was diagnosed with long QT syndrome type 2. Traditional implantation of defibrillator using fluoroscopy became contraindicated after she again became pregnant prior to device implantation. A subcutaneous defibrillator was successfully implanted in the second trimester, after a multidisciplinary evaluation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2021-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8311049/ /pubmed/34317568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.12.038 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Successful Subcutaneous Defibrillator Implantation in a Pregnant Patient With Long QT Syndrome
title_fullStr Successful Subcutaneous Defibrillator Implantation in a Pregnant Patient With Long QT Syndrome
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title_short Successful Subcutaneous Defibrillator Implantation in a Pregnant Patient With Long QT Syndrome
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topic Mini-Focus Issue: Electrophysiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311049/
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