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Life-threatening torsade de pointes arrhythmia associated with head injury
M Rotem1, S Constantini, Y Shir
1Intensive Care Unit (Department of Anesthesiology), Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Neurosurgery
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
Torsade de pointes (atypical ventricular tachycardia) occurred in a 75-year-old man 1 day after blunt head injury, in association with a focal intracerebral hematoma in the left thalamic area. The causal relationship between the traumatic stimulation of the left sympathetic pathway and the development of this life-threatening arrhythmia is discussed.