Automatic burst extrastimulus pacemaker to treat recurrent ventricular tachycardia in a patient with mitral valve prolapse: more than 2,000 documented successful tachycardia terminations.
An automatic burst pacemaker (Cybertach-60) was used to treat drug-resistant recurrent ventricular tachycardia in a patient with mitral valve prolapse. The arrhythmia was associated with multiple syncopal episodes and aborted sudden death. During a 23 month follow-up period the patient has remained asymptomatic and more than 2,000 episodes of ventricular tachycardia have been successfully terminated by the pacemaker.
D000328:Adult; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000628:therapy*; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000628:therapy*