Ventricular tachycardia in Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.
We report a case of a 31-year-old man with severe Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and sustained ventricular tachycardia. Serial electrophysiologic studies demonstrated the inefficiency of antiarrhythmic drugs in our patient who died after the implant of an automatic cardioverter defibrillator. A literature review is made.
Muñoz
J
J
Servicio de Cardiologia, Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia, Spain.
Sanjuan
R
R
Morell
J S
JS
Ibañez
M
M
D000328:Adult; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D004562:Electrocardiography; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000150:complications*; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*