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An 18-Year-Old Woman Who Was Found Down
Mazen M Kawji1, David Luke Glancy2
1Heartland Cardiovascular Center, Joliet, Illinois.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|January 31, 2017
Abstract:
An 18-year-old woman was found unresponsive by her mother. After the patient spontaneously regained consciousness, an electrocardiogram showed a markedly prolonged QT interval thought to be due to congenital long QT1. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator was placed. After being free of symptoms for 1 year, she spontaneously developed torsades de pointes that was successfully terminated by the defibrillator.