Cardiac arrest in an adolescent with Uhl’s anomaly: Two unusual cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms

نویسندگان

  • Jeffrey P. Moak
  • Gail D. Pearson
  • Bradley Clark
  • Charles I. Berul
  • Russell R. Cross
  • Dilip S. Nath
چکیده

Introduction Uhl’s disease is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly characterized by partial or complete absence of the right ventricular free wall myocardium, which is replaced by fibroelastic and adipose tissue. Complications that result can be divided into either right ventricular dysfunction with congestive heart failure, or arrhythmias. While ventricular arrhythmias predominate, there are case reports of atrial flutter, intra-atrial reentry tachycardia, atrioventricular (AV) block, and bilateral bundle branch block. Sudden cardiac death has been reported in patients with Uhl’s anomaly. Herein we report an adolescent patient with out-ofhospital cardiac arrest with 2 unusual arrhythmia mechanisms. What are the mechanisms for these 2 arrhythmias?

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دوره 2  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2016