Cardiac Transplantation for Refractory Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

Sumon Roy, MD; Winston Hong, MD; Melissa Wasilewski, MD; Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Sep 2020)

Cardiac Transplantation for Refractory Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

Sumon Roy, MD,
Winston Hong, MD,
Melissa Wasilewski, MD,
Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD

Affiliations

Sumon Roy, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, Virginia; Address for correspondence: Dr. Sumon Roy, Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1201 E. Marshall Street, Richmond, Virginia 23298.
Winston Hong, MD: Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, Virginia
Melissa Wasilewski, MD: Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, Virginia
Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, Virginia

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 11
pp. 1757 – 1761

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We present a patient with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia who failed maximal antiarrhythmic drug therapy and bilateral sympathetic denervation, who presented with syncope and recurrent ventricular tachycardia for 11 min refractory to 21 shocks. She underwent cardiac transplantation as curative treatment for refractory ventricular arrhythmias in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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