Acta Medica Medianae (Oct 2009)
VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION - CASE REPORT
Abstract
Sudden cardiac death poses an immense problem in the middle and highly developed countries because its first expression is at the same time the last one. Ventricle tachycardia, the monomorphous and the polymorphous ones, and ventricular fibrillation are rhythm disorders that are most frequently associated with the phenomenon of sudden cardiac death. Ventricular fibrillation is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death within the first hours of the acute myocardial infarction. A 60-year-old man was admitted to our Clinic from a local hospital due to acute onset of chest pain and ECG signs of anterior ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. He had severe rhythm disturbances, about 70 epizodes of ventricular fibrilation (VF). Due to rhytmical instability of the patient, we decided that along with PCI it was necessary to implant ICD twenty-two days after the first acute coronary event.The ICD implantation ensures the best prevention against sudden cardiac death (secondary and primary) in selected high-risk patients and has no alternative for any medicine known so far. It is significant that, lately, the field of application has extended to indication areas of primary prevention of sudden cardiac death, and especially to development of resynchronization implantable cardioverter defibrillator in the heart failure therapy.
