title: Self-terminating idiopathic ventricular fibrillation presenting as syncope: a 40-year follow-up report.
abstract: Out-of-hospital ventricular tachyarrhythmia has a high mortality. Most patients sustaining this type of arrhythmia have an organic heart disease. In this case report we present a patient with recurrent ventricular fibrillation with the clinical appearance of syncope, where no relevant organic heart disease could be found at autopsy performed 40 years later.
authors.affiliation: Medical Department, Aker Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kontny
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dale
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D012008:Recurrence; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology