Transient ventricular fibrillation. A clinical case report.
Self-terminating ventricular fibrillation (VF) was recorded in a 42-year-old woman without coronary artery or structural heart disease. Reviewing the scientific literature, we found that this type of VF had appeared in vivo in some animal models but was sparsely described in clinical practice. This most unusual case shows that potentially lethal arrhythmias may be self-terminating.
Blaer
Yosef
Y
Cardiology Department, Barzilai Medical Center Campus, Ashkelon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. blaer@barzi.health.gov.il
Khalameizer
Vladimir
V
Jafari
Jamal
J
Katz
Amos
A
Reisin
Leonardo
L
Yosefy
Chaim
C
D000328:Adult; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D003128:Coma / Q000209:etiology; D003325:Coronary Care Units; D003422:Critical Care; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D035583:Rare Diseases; D012008:Recurrence; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012307:Risk Factors; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy