Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia detected after coronavirus disease 2019
Koichiro Yamamoto1, Koji Nakagawa2, Fumio Otsuka1
1Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama Japan.
Insights
This case report details a 23-year-old woman with depression and long COVID who developed idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT). This is the first documented instance of idiopathic VT in a long COVID patient, highlighting a potential, though unconfirmed, link.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Infectious Diseases
- Psychiatry
Background:
- Long COVID, a complex condition following SARS-CoV-2 infection, can manifest with diverse symptoms.
- Cardiac complications are increasingly recognized in long COVID patients.
- Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a heart rhythm disorder without a clear underlying structural cause.
Abstract:
We present a 23-year-old woman with depression and long COVID in whom a diagnosis of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) was made. Although the relationship between idiopathic VT and long COVID remains unknown, this is the first report of idiopathic VT detected in a patient with long COVID.
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