Wide complex tachycardia and congenital heart disease.
We present a patient with congenital heart disease and haemodynamically poorly tolerated wide QRS tachycardia. Differential diagnosis and therapy are discussed. After the patient underwent heart transplantation, and the substrates for ECG abnormalities and arrhythmias were demonstrated in the explanted heart.
Surmely
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Division of Cardiology, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Taylor
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Payot
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Delacrétaz
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D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery