Successful coronary pace-termination of ventricular tachycardia during coronary angioplasty.
Coronary pacing has been performed to treat bradycardias occurring during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) using an angioplasty guidewire. We describe a case of a 62-year-old man who developed ventricular tachycardia (VT) during PTCA. The tachycardia was successfully terminated by overdrive pacing via an angioplasty guidewire.
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Northwest Regional Cardiac Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom.
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D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000628:therapy; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*