A Case of Incessant Ventricular Tachycardia Abolished after Endomyocardial Biopsy.
10.4070/kcj.1996.26.5.1074
- Author:
Man Young LEE
;
Jang Seong CHAE
;
Gil Hwan LEE
;
Dong Heon KANG
;
Kie Bae SEUNG
;
Tae Ho RHO
;
Jae Hyung KIM
;
Soon Jo HONG
;
Kyu Bo CHOI
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Ventricular tachycardia;
Endomyocardial biopsy
- MeSH:
Adult;
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents;
Arrhythmias, Cardiac;
Biopsy*;
Catheter Ablation;
Classification;
Coronary Artery Disease;
Death, Sudden, Cardiac;
Female;
Heart Diseases;
Humans;
Pathology;
Tachycardia;
Tachycardia, Ventricular*
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
1996;26(5):1074-1081
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Ventricular tachycardia is an important tachyarrhythmia which is encountered commonly in clinical field. The accompanying manifestations could be variable just from palpitation to sudden cardiac death. The classification of this arrhythmia has not completly settled yet, but in a broad way this arrhythmia is classified according to the prescence or abscence or underlying heart disease, especially coronary artery disease. Recently, therapeutic modalities for this arrhythmia have been changed a lot from classical antiarrhythmic drugs to radiofrequency ablation or ICD implantation although there are still some problems to overcome. We experienced a case of 34-year-old female having an incessant ventricular tacycardia which was abolished after endomyocardial biopsy performed to differentiate underlying myocardial pathology.
