A case of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia during pregnancy.
We report a case of a 37-year-old woman who had paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia (VT) during early pregnancy. She had severe hyperemesis, palpitation at 6 weeks of gestation and many episodes of paroxysmal VT, but no apparent organic heart disease. At that time she had a transient increase of thyroid hormone levels. With bed rest and without medication, her symptoms and episodes of VT disappeared in accordance with the improvement of hyperemesis and thyrotoxicosis. She demonstrated a rare course of arrhythmias in which the deterioration of VT was observed at transient thyrotoxicosis and hyperemesis.
Kinugawa
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First Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan.
Fujimoto
Y
Y
Miyakoda
H
H
Ogino
K
K
Shigemasa
C
C
Hasegawa
J
J
Kotake
H
H
Mashiba
H
H
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000209:etiology*; D013614:Tachycardia, Paroxysmal / Q000209:etiology*; D013971:Thyrotoxicosis / Q000150:complications