[Ventricular tachycardia inducible in a patient with recurrent syncope after Senning operation]

A 17 year old man with transposition of the great vessels who had two episodes of late recurrent syncope following Senning repair 2 months before hospital registration. One episode required basic cardiopulmonary reanimation. Holter monitoring documented isolated polytopic and coupled ventricular extrasystoles. Programmed left ventricular pacing induced polymorphous ventricular tachycardia, which converted to monomorphic sustained ventricular tachycardia after intravenous procainamide. A cardioverter defibrillator was implanted in left ventricle by intravenous approach. Twelve months later the patient presented an episode of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and one appropriate therapy from the defibrillator discharge was done.