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Recurrent atrial flutter in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
I P Gavaliatsis1, N M Kouvousis, L S Rallidis
1Second Department of Cardiology, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Japanese Heart Journal
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
Palpitations are a symptom often reported by patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), yet the arrhythmias associated with this type of HCM have not been studied adequately. Herein, a case of persistently recurrent atrial flutter in a 63-year-old Greek man with apical HCM is presented. Synchronized direct-current shocks were used twice during his hospitalization in order to convert atrial flutter to sinus rhythm. No definite precipitating factor for the induction of atrial flutter was identified.