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Reversible congestive cardiomyopathy due to chronic ventricular tachycardia
P Rakovec1, J Lajovic, M Dolenc
1Clinic of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Clinical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
A patient with congestive cardiomyopathy, induced by ventricular tachycardia, is presented. The patient had chronic ventricular tachycardia, which persisted 4 months and was eventually successfully treated by an antitachycardia pacemaker. A severe left ventricular dysfunction persisted after treatment for some days and then gradually resolved. After 3 months the indices of left ventricular function returned to normal values. The tachycardia-induced ventricular dysfunction seems to be a reversible disorder.