Pseudo-PJRT in an 8 year-old boy with severe decompensated heart failure and recurrent episodes of ventricular fibrillation | Zendy

Marek Jastrzębski | Zendy; Maciej Pitak | Zendy; Andrzej Rudziński | Zendy; Danuta Czarnecka | Zendy

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Pseudo-PJRT in an 8 year-old boy with severe decompensated heart failure and recurrent episodes of ventricular fibrillation

Author(s) -

Marek Jastrzębski,

Maciej Pitak,

Andrzej Rudziński,

Danuta Czarnecka

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

kardiologia polska

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527

H-Index - 34

eISSN - 1897-4279

pISSN - 0022-9032

DOI - 10.5603/kp.2013.0050

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ventricular fibrillation , heart failure , acute decompensated heart failure

We present a case of 8 year-old boy with several episodes of ventricular fibrillation in the course of tachycardia-mediated cardiomyopathy and severe decompensated heart failure. The cardiomyopathy was caused by incessant long-RP tachycardia that was resistant to pharmacotherapy. Despite initial suspition that the arrhythmia was permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia (PJRT) electrophysiology study revealed atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. Due to clinical and electrocardiographical presentation mimicking PJRT such arrhythmia merits the name 'pseudo PJRT'.

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