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Ventricular tachycardia during hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
C A Thix1, I Königsrainer, R Kind
1Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Tuebingen University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany.
Summary:
Cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is used for selected gastrointestinal carcinomas. We report a case of ventricular tachycardia during HIPEC with cisplatin that persisted as long as the chemotherapy solution remained in the intra-abdominal cavity. We hypothesise that high plasma levels of cisplatin with concomitant low magnesium levels caused the arrhythmia.
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