Positional ventricular tachycardia.
A 60-year-old man showed nonsustained repetitive monomorphic VT in the left lateral position, but this was terminated by deep inspiration. Echocardiography and MRI demonstrated a false tendon extending from the apex to the basal septum where the VT could have originated. Spontaneous remission occurred during the 16-year follow-up.
Betsuyaku
Tetsuo
T
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan. betsuo@yahoo.com
Yonezawa
Kazuya
K
Sakurai
Masayuki
M
Kitabatake
Akira
A
D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011187:Posture; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology