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Sick Sinus Syndrome in a Patient with Extensive Cardiac Lipomatosis (Sinus Node Dysfunction in Lipomatosis)
Author(s) -
KADMON EHUD,
PAZ RAMI,
KUSNIEC JAIRO,
STRASBERG BORIS
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02551.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sick sinus syndrome , lipomatosis , asymptomatic , cardiology , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , sinus (botany) , surgery , botany , biology , genus
We present a case of a 45‐year‐old man with an incidental and longstanding diagnosis of extensive mediastinal and cardiac lipomatosis. Along the years, he had experienced various arrhythmias, mainly bradyarrhythmias, mostly asymptomatic. Recently after documenting a sinus pause of 6 seconds and runs of nonsustained ventricular tachycardias, he underwent an implantation of a cardioverter‐defibrillator. There are many reports of cardiac lipomatosis in the literature, including reports of related ventricular arrhythmias, some of which are fatal. (PACE 2010; 513–515)