[Ventricular tachycardia and cardiac hemochromatosis].
Hemochromatosis is characterized by an excessive iron deposit in different tissues. Cardiac involvement may be observed in one third of the patients due to hemochromatosis and occurs as a consequence of ferritin accumulation in the heart which on one hand induces alterations in systolic and diastolic ventricular function and on the other hand, an arrythmogenic substrate. The clinical manifestations can be indistinctly related to atrial tachyarrhythmia, ventricular tachyarrhythmia, atrio-ventricular blockade and congestive heart failure, with the first being the most frequent. We present the case of one patient with secondary hemochromatosis to repeated transfusions due to sideroblastic anemia with cardiac involvement, whose initial heart manifestations were recurrent atrial tachyarrhythmia and sustained ventricular tachycardia with syncope for which an automatic defibrillator was implanted.
Luis Moríñigo
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Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario, Salamanca. jlmori@eresmas.com
Martín Luengo
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Ledesma
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Arribas
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Nieto
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Rodríguez
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D000328:Adult; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006432:Hemochromatosis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology