title: [Severe dysautonomy as a result of intra-cranial bleeding can cause an electrical storm with auricular fibrillation].
abstract: A 69-year-old woman with a medical history of stroke and an ICD device due to torsade de pointes was admitted with a right basal ganglia haemorrhage. In the hours after admission the patient's condition severely declined and she developed fever, hypertension and flushing consistent with autonomic dysfunction with sympathetic storming. ICD interrogation revealed electrical storm with 138 appropriate shocks delivered at the night of admission. We wish to draw attention to the close link between brain and heart, which in predisposed patients with a new stroke can cause malignant arrhythmias.
authors.affiliation: mette@lindelof.net.
authors.forename: Mette
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindelof
authors.forename: Helene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Asgier Snær
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Vilhjamsson
authors.forename: Kajsa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kemppi
authors.forename: Ulla
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Høst
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D020145:Basal Ganglia Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013616:Tachycardia, Sinus / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology*