title: Clusters of ventricular fibrillation in a patient with an implantable cardioverter difibrillator treated with amiodarone.
abstract: A 44 year-old man with severe left ventricular dysfunction resulting from an old myocardial infarction developed clusters of ventricular fibrillation (VF). Although coronary bypass surgery was performed and heart failure was well controlled, the VF recurred during amiodarone therapy. Despite multiple deliveries of shocks by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, the electrical storm could not be terminated. Some substrate for rapid ventricular tachyarrhythmias, refractory to class III drugs, can lead to death from arrhythmia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Japan. emorit@md.okayama-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tetsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Emori
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Kengo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kusano
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsubara
authors.forename: Shunji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sano
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000638:Amiodarone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006323:Heart Arrest; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000209:etiology; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000638:Amiodarone